Viernes, 27 de Septiembre del 2019 8:45 pm
La Administración de Desarrollo Económico del Departamento de Desarrollo de Comercio de los Estados Unidos anunció esta semana, que están otorgando una subvención de $ 900,000 a la Corporación de Mejoramiento Comunitaria de Brownsville para establecer un centro de vanguardia que ayude a fomentar el crecimiento de las empresas basadas en tecnología.
El proyecto transformará el edificio Casa del Nylon en 1304 E. Adams St. y se adaptará a $ 1.4 millones en fondos locales. BCIC planea hacer de este el centro de emprendimiento más grande al sur de San Antonio con el nombre del "Centro E-Bridge para empresas y comercialización".
“We want Brownsville to be the focal point for all entrepreneurs in the region, nationally and across the state,”Nathan Burkhart, Director of Marketing & Small Business Development for BCIC said. “We firmly believe in the capacity of the human capital that is currently present in our community but we feel that we can add to that attractiveness by having a physical entrepreneurial center that revolves around all the fundamental resources needed for any entrepreneur to succeed at a larger scale.”
”Queremos que Brownsville sea el punto focal para todos los empresarios de la región, a nivel nacional y en todo el estado.
Nathan BrkhartDirector of Marketing & Small Business Development
The project is meant to create a pipeline of “scaleable businesses” or businesses that can multiply revenue with minimal additional investment. A business incubator for launching start-ups will be a component of the center, though it will also house entities providing resources small businesses and entrepreneurs need to be sustainable, Burkhart said in an earlier interview. The project is about consolidating the city’s entrepreneurship resourced under one roof, he said. BCIC spearheaded development of the concept and lined up key partners over a two-year period.
“The next step right now, BCIC along with their legal team and the Lower Rio Grande Valley development council will begin developing and finalizing an upcoming (request for quotation) for architecture and engineering to ensure that we get a design built plan for the Casa Nylon Project,” Burkhart said. “We hope that once we do a ground-breaking ceremony it will take about 14 to 16 months for the construction to be completed if all goes well smoothly and if no other delays occur within that process, but we are trying to be very effective with every step we do so that we can go ahead and get this done as soon as possible.”
El Centro de Emprendimiento y Comercialización de UTRGV, la incubadora de la Universidad en Brownsville, ubicada actualmente en East Price Road, trasladará todos sus programas al nuevo centro. BCIC también está colaborando con la ciudad, la Cámara de Comercio de Brownsville y el Centro de Negocios para Mujeres Rio Grande Valley.
“They’re all pretty much conglomerating in this one specific building so that we can provide all the resources and programming in any avenue to be able to obtain capital for all this entrepreneurs will be found in the center,” Burkhart said. “That includes all the partnerships that we’ve already established with maquiladoras from the other side of the river so we can explore any of the viable business opportunities that can come up and be established within our community.”
Burkhart added that he is very excited for Brownsville and that the project has been a success because of the involvement the community had.
"Estamos muy emocionados y orgullosos de BCIC para poder trabajar en colaboración con todos estos otros socios", dijo. "Creemos que este gran proyecto fue un éxito debido a la participación que todos tenían".
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