MONTGOMERY COUNTY MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS PRESERVATION STRATEGY

 
 
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MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS PRESERVATION STRATEGY
Wheaton, MD | 2020

The Montgomery County Planning Department engaged &Access to lead a team (Partners for Economic Solutions and Ochoa Urban Collaborative) to design strategies to preserve and grow minority-owned, independent retail clusters in Wheaton, Silver Spring, and Takoma/Langley. To accomplish this goal, our on-going work brings together disparate groups - property and business owners, policymakers, entrepreneurial support organizations, and commercial real estate developers and brokers.

Each of these groups plays a role in mitigating the impacts of public real estate and transportation investments prevalent across diverse retailer groups in each neighborhood studied.  The project will result in a series of nine recommended policies, programs, or funding tools, tailoring a set of initial solutions identified in a University of Maryland graduate-level course &Access’s founder taught in Fall 2019. 

 
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Our Impact

9 recommendations for policy, programing and funding to celebrate and preserve the retail culture of communities undergoing substantial change

Nearly 100 minority-owned business owners engaged

Cost-benefit analyses of recommended solutions

 
 
 
 
Bobby Boone