The NWSI Business Association formed in July 2010 to help unify businesses in the neighborhood. The association is allowing the business community to engage in cross promotion and joint advertising, as well as provide a forum where strategic partnerships are nurtured and community resources shared. Members are also communicating more frequently, discussing aggregated services, and leveraging each other’s resources and skills. The group has created a mission statement, adopted a logo, instituted a membership-driven committee structure to implement projects and recruited a number of new businesses to participate. The group has recently grown to over 30 members and regularly experiences record turnout at monthly meetings.
The NWSI Business Association meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 5:30-6:30PM at the Delavan Center at 501 West Fayette Street. Dinner is served from 5-5:30PM. Neighborhood businesses and entrepreneurs are encouraged to contact the association’s chair, Bill Delavan if they are interested in becoming involved or for more information at (315) 579-2801.
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Testimonial:
NWSI Business Association member John Gerros, of Jacobs Architectural Woodworking, has been a member since the group was formed. He experienced firsthand the benefits of being part of the association. After noticing criminal activity taking place at a building adjacent to his business, Gerros went to the business association for assistance.
“The police visited us shortly after we brought our concerns to the business association meeting and set up a surveillance station on our second floor. That same day, they made at least one arrest and found a gun that was involved in a shooting the previous week,” he says. “Needless to say, we were impressed by the swift action of the business association and relieved that their assistance might slow the criminal activity in our midst. But even beyond that, our hopes for the NWSI have been greatly bolstered by our participation with the initiative’s business association.”