Free business training webinars start this week
The Bailey’s Crossroads/7 Corners Revitalization Corporation (BC7RC) is collaborating with the Community Business Partnership to offer free business-training webinars. The sessions are funded with a grant from Kaiser Permanente.
Information on how to access the sessions will be provided after registering.
Here’s the schedule:
April 20 – Credit Voyage, 3-5 p.m. This session, facilitated by Sean Chrysostom, engagement specialist at Capital One, will cover the value of having good credit, strategies to build credit, tips on maintaining a positive credit score, and how to avoid credit fraud. Register here.
May 11 – Retail Open Forum for Bailey’s Crossroads/Culmore Businesses, 3-4 p.m. Facilitated by the Women’s Business Center of Northern Virginia. Topic: disaster mitigation. This is an opportunity for business owners and managers to talk about their needs and learn about resources and support. Register here.
To help the presenters prepare, take a brief survey indicating your top three business challenges. They could be something like access to funding, marketing, or planning for post-COVID business.
May 18 – Restaurant Open Forum for Bailey’s Crossroads/Culmore Businesses, 3-4 p.m. Facilitated by the Women’s Business Center of Northern Virginia. Topic: disaster mitigation. Register here.
The meeting will begin with a short presentation on resources offered by the Community Business Partnership and the Women’s Business Center, followed by an open discussion of issues raised in advance by participants. To help the facilitators plan the session, take a short survey indicating your biggest challenges.
These sessions are also offered in Spanish. See the schedule here.
One response to “Free business training webinars start this week”
Leave a reply
BaBaileys Crossroads does not need business training, it needs to build on what already is successful with strong advocating leadership and tax incentives from the County. It currently has neither. The shopping center with Best Buy is successful with the Trader Joe and Best Buy anchors. The shopping center with Old Navy is struggling. It was once a booming place with Borders, HH Gregg, and now it’s a sleeping giant with an outmoded form of a shopping experience. Hopefully, the proposed Amazon Fresh Mart will improve this landscape of vacant parking spaces and underutilization. The landlords need an incentive from the County to change the mode of this experience. This current model of strip centers is without housing, entertainment, and office retail that has contributed to these shopping centers to fail over time. A new paradigm is needed and not more brick and mortar for social programs.
Penny Gross has shown over time that she is not the leader to catapult Baileys out of its slump; she has remained an impediment. A new southeast office building with social welfare recipients and a homeless center population will only continue to contribute to its spiral decline. This 1970s model has proven in many municipalities to be unsuccessful and detrimental. This would surely put the nail in the coffin for Bailey’s future. Until we get new youthful and smart District Leadership, County tax incentive programs and support to spur the private sector to view Baileys as an asset and a good investment, Baileys will continue to falter into a growing section 8 and social welfare cesspool.
The vital ingredients to improve this blighted area is to balance County and private sector investment funds, realistic planning, social conscience and strong leadership that will take on this decline. That is what is needed now. We are back in an economic growth boom. If Baileys does not take advantage of this uptick, it will never become what is has the potential to be.