{"id":5029,"date":"2017-10-20T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2017-10-20T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:09:07","slug":"city-council-review-business-incubator-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/city-council-review-business-incubator-program\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council to Review Business Incubator Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council will review a plan to research a possible business incubator during a study session at 10:00 am on Tuesday, October 24<sup>th<\/sup>, in Council Chambers at Yakima City Hall, 129 North Second Street.<\/p>\n<p>During a previous meeting on September 5<sup>th<\/sup>, the Yakima City Council approved a resolution authorizing $50,000 in Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) funds to evaluate real estate options for a public market\/business incubator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CERB program is an ideal avenue for assisting the City in moving forward with this project,&#8221; said Economic Development Manager Sean Hawkins. &#8220;We have a really good team to help us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research will include evaluating possible sites, reviewing possible layouts, configurations, conceptual drawings, and estimated construction cost.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins said the first steps will include the October 24<sup>th<\/sup> study session and narrowing a list of possible locations. The research should be completed by sometime next spring, he said.<\/p>\n<p>An incubator can be helpful for economic development because it &#8220;lowers the barriers&#8221; for new businesses to try out different ideas, Hawkins said. &#8220;It lets them start the business on a smaller scale,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>CERB officials approved the City&#8217;s funding request in November 2016 and in May 2017 the Council approved a contract with Graham Baba Architects to perform the study.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the City Council in August 2015 received the results of a feasibility study identifying nine possible locations for the incubator\/market in Yakima&#8217;s Downtown District.<\/p>\n<p>The study session will be streamed live at 10:00 am on October 24<sup>th<\/sup> on the City of Yakima website &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/City-Council-to-Review-Business-Incubator-Program-News-Release.pdf\">City Council to Review Business Incubator Program &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council will review a plan to research a possible business incubator during a study session at 10:00 am on Tuesday, October 24th, in Council Chambers at Yakima City Hall, 129 North Second Street. During a previous meeting on September 5th, the Yakima City Council approved a resolution authorizing $50,000 in Washington State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,10,117,50,23,8],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-business-incubator","tag-downtown","tag-feasibility-study","tag-study-session","tag-yakima","tag-yakima-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}