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WHAT:
This week, the finance publication WalletHub recognized Orlando as the best large city to start a business for aspiring entrepreneurs, ranking the city number one out of 100 U.S. cities. From restaurant owners to high-tech movers and shakers, the city earned the top spot for offering opportunities for long-term prosperity in in areas such as business-survival rate, labor costs and office-space affordability. Today, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando City Council have proclaimed April 30 - May 6 as National Small Business Week in the City of Orlando. For more than 50 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has celebrated National Small Business Week, which recognizes the critical contributions of America's entrepreneurs and small business owners.
The City of Orlando has a long history of supporting a thriving small business environment that creates job opportunities for residents. Furthermore, the city offers several incentive programs to help further business retention and make Orlando a desirable place for businesses to relocate, including the Small Business Façade, the Minority/Women Entrepreneur Business Assistance (MEBA) and the Business Assistance programs.
One of the city’s most successful small business programs is Orlando Main Streets, which has created more than $2.1 billion in public and private investments, 11,000 new jobs and more than 1,800 new businesses since the program’s inception in 2008. Orlando is one of only four citywide coordinating programs in the entire country and there are currently 12 successful and thriving neighborhood commercial districts in the city.
This National Small Business Week reaffirms the city’s commitment to supporting small businesses to help them thrive, as well as the shared effort to create a city where every resident has equitable access to opportunities.
To read the Small Business Week proclamation, click here.
For more information on resources for small businesses visit https://www.orlando.gov/Business-Incentives.
INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer
Economic Development Director Brooke Devon M Rimmer-Bonnett
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