East Town Business Partnership

Serving the Downtown East and Elliot Park Business Community since 1979

Serving the Downtown East and Elliot Park Business Community since 1979

Plan it! Training coming to Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc. in 2019

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Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc. is partnering with Neighborhood Development Center to offer the Plan It! training twice in 2019.   Whether you’re just getting started, have recently started operations or are a current business owner seeking additional training, Plan It! is a great opportunity to build and expand your knowledge. Offered in the Spring and Fall, the 12-session format includes classroom instruction, one-on-one sessions and graduation.  Throughout the program, we’ll cover topics including accounting, finance, the credit review process, marketing, operations, management and more. In addition to these topics, we’ll identify and develop skills like budgeting, cash management and professional etiquette, and we’ll help you research, write and confidently articulate a sound business plan.

Class will be held at Impact Hub (817 5th Ave S, #400) on TBD dates in the Spring and Fall.

Plan it! Training Application 

ETBP February 21, Business Forum Presentations Now Available

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The presentations are now available for the February 21, business forum.  We had an excellent turnout of our membership with over 40 attendees.  A big thank you to The Depot for hosting our group, and to Hennepin Healthcare for sponsoring this month’s event.

ETBP Executive Director Dan Collison’s slide deck

Thank you to our Guest Presenters:

Kate Mortenson, CEO of the NCAA Final 4 Local Organizing Committee

William Walsh and Andrea Brown, Hennepin Healthcare

 

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Joint ETBP – MDC Business Forum on March 21, at Dorsey & Whitney

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The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is a joint event with the minneapolis downtown council on Thursday, March 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at Dorsey & Whitney, 50 South 6th Street, #Suite 1500.  Registration, networking and lunch start at 11:30 a.m. with the program beginning at Noon.  This month’s event is free, but please RSVP via Eventbrite so that we have a good attendee count for food.

Description

Downtown Minneapolis is home to nationally recognized thinkers and organizations that work to end homelessness. This forum with the East Town Business Partnership will feature People Serving People CEO Daniel Gumnit moderating a panel focusing on where economic innovations meet human need.

panelists:

  • Commissioner Angela Conley, Hennepin County
  • Ben Horowitz, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  • John Quincy, Youthlink

ETBP January 17, Business Forum presentations now available

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The presentations are now available for the January 17, business forum at Padilla.  We had an excellent turnout of our membership with over 40 attendees.  A big thank you to Tom Jollie and his staff at Padilla for hosting our group.

ETBP Executive Director Dan Collison’s slide deck

Thank you to our Guest Presenters:

Beth Shogren, Executive Director of Green Minneapolis
Ward 3, Council Member Steve Fletcher
John Barobs, Communications Manager, Move Minneapolis
Bill Dossett, Executive Director, Nice Ride MN
Charles Carlson, Senior Manager, Metro Transit

 

 

ETBP February 21, Business Forum at the Depot Minneapolis

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The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is scheduled for Thursday, February 21, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at The Depot – 225 3rd Avenue South.  The title of this month’s forum is “Ways the Social Determinants of Health are Transforming Institutions.”  Registration, lunch and networking starts at 11:30 a.m. with the program starting at Noon. Please register via Eventbrite.  If you are a Platinum member, or if you purchase lunch coupons with your membership, please contact Christie for the coupon code.

Description

The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.” In this forum East Town and Hennepin Healthcare’s Upstream Health Innovation Team will share how they are leveraging human-centered design as both the mindset and the toolkit to promote health equity and meet the upstream needs of patients and communities.

Presenting Sponsor

Hennepin Healthcare, Spokesperson TBD

Spotlight Presenter: The Final Four Local Organizing Committee —Kate Mortenson, President and CEO

Featured Speakers

Upstream Health Innovation Team:

  • William Walsh, Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, Hennepin Healthcare
  • Andrea Brown, Senior Human Centered Designer, Hennepin Healthcare


Agenda

  1. 11:30 am: Registration and networking
  2. 12:00 pm: Welcome and Introductions—Paul Mellblom, President
  3. 12:05 pm: Announcements and Updates – Dan Collison, Executive Director
  4. 12:10 pm: Final Four Spotlight: Local Organizing Committee, Kate Mortenson, President/CEO
  5. 12:25 pm: Upstream Health Innovations Feature Presentation + Q & A
  6. 12:55: Wrap up – Dan Collison
  7. 1:00 pm: Program ends

Joint ETBP – MDC Happy Hour Networking Event on February 19

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Date And Time

Tue, February 19, 2019
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM CST

Location

broadhead / North401 Studios
401 1st Ave N – 2nd Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55401

RSVP – https://www.mplsdowntown.com/registration190219/

 

This presentation will unfurl a compelling narrative that mpls in specific, and the Twin Cities region overall, are at the leading edge of several nationally bench-marked competitive economic indices. It will explore the high level economic drivers and provide analysis of the fundamentals that are driving real estate returns as well as other key areas of investment.

 

ETBP January 17, 2019 Business Forum at Padilla

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The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is scheduled for Thursday, January 17, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at Padilla – 1101 West River Parkway, Suite #400.  The title of this month’s forum is “Car Lanes, Bus Lanes, Bikes – OH MY!”  Registration, lunch and networking starts at 11:30 a.m. with the program starting at Noon.

Description
Figuratively speaking it seems that modes of transportation do not always get along. This forum will feature a panel of transportation design experts talking frankly about downtown street design, emerging trends in multimodalism and potential disruptive technologies such as autonomous vehicles.

Featured Speakers

  • Bill Dossett, Executive Director, Nice Ride Minnesota
  • John Barobs, Communications Manager, Move Minneapolis
  • Charles Carlson, Senior Manager, BRT/Small Starts Projects, Metro Transit
  • Council Member Steve Fletcher, Ward 3, City of Minneapolis

 

Spotlight Presenter: GreaterMSP Inclusion Toolkit, Caroline Karanja, Founder, 26 Letters

Agenda
11:30 am: Registration and networking
12:00 pm: Welcome and Introductions—Paul Mellblom, President
12:05 pm: Announcements and Updates – Dan Collison, Executive Director
12:10 pm: Minneapolis Ward 3 Update—Council Member Steve Fletcher
12:15 pm: Green Minneapolis Spotlight—Beth Shogren, Executive Director
12:25 pm: Feature Panel

  • Bill Dossett, Executive Director, Nice Ride Minnesota
  • John Barobs, Communications Manager, Move Minneapolis
  • Charles Carlson, Senior Manager, BRT/Small Starts Projects, Metro Transit
  • Council Member Steve Fletcher, Ward 3, City of Minneapolis

12:55: Wrap up – Dan Collison
1:00 pm: Program ends

Please RSVP via Eventbrite by no later than 4 p.m., on Monday, January 14, 2019.  If you are Platinum member or if you purchased lunch coupons with your membership, please contact ETBP Executive Coordinator Christie for the coupon code.

Joint ETBP – MDC December 18, Business Forum presentation now available

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The East Town Business Partnership and the minneapolis downtown council held another successful joint business forum on December 18, at the new Elliot Park Hotel.  The topic for this month’s forum was, “Downtown Demographics: Who are we becoming?”  We had a line-up of great speakers.  In addition to our regular welcome by mdc President and CEO Steve Cramer and ETBP Executive Director Dan Collison, we also heard from the following:

  • Dana Orlando, General Manager, Elliot Park Hotel
  • Erik Hansen, Director of Economic Policy & Development,
    City of Minneapolis, CPED
  • Mary Bujold, President, Maxfield Research and Consulting
  • Andrea Brennan, Director of Housing Policy and Development,
    City of Minneapolis, CPED

PRESENTATIONS:

December 18, Business Forum presentation

Elliot Park Hotel promotional video

Additional Demographic Info:

Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
Minneapolis Workforce Demographics Dashboard
City, Ward and Neighborhood Profiles

Impact Hub Mash-Up on December 4, at 6 p.m., at the Impact Hub

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DESCRIPTION

Would you like to hear first hand from key players about their views in tackling one of the biggest global challenges of our time?

Join us for the Impact Hub North America Mash-up, focused on Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work & Economic Growth. At this event, you will discover innovations and future trends around the topic in the Twin Cities and beyond. This cross-sectoral event brings together key actors in the sector to not only present their innovative solutions and/or experiences, but also to share their points of view on what’s needed for us to improve our results around SDG8, and reach this goal by 2030.

Keynote Speaker: Gary Cunningham, President and CEO at Meda – Metropolitan Economic Development Association

Panelists:

  • Thomas Adams, Better Futures
  • Marion Greene, Hennepin County Commissioner
  • Dan Collison, Minneapolis Downtown Council
  • Kate Davenport, Eureka Recylcing

Agenda:

6-7: Check-in & Networking (Food & Drinks Provided)

7-7:30 Keynote Speaker with Q & A

7:30-8:30 Panel

8:30-9 Networking & Close

RSVP via Eventbrite.

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