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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Chinatown Fresno Foundation is looking for radical with an ambitious concern thought - and they privation to assistance marque it happen.
The Chinatown Fresno Foundation's Project Director Jan Minami says ever since the instauration started they person enactment connected concern retention and recruitment. Through a grant, Minami says they person created a "Pop-Up Place" for six tiny businesses for six months.
"Essentially it's similar a hub for these businesses without the walls," Minami says, "We volition marketplace the Pop-Up Place, we volition invitation customers, and we volition overgarment stores connected the crushed connected the factual too."
Minami says determination are precise fewer rules for which businesses tin determination into the Pop-Up Place.
"We person a pistillate who wants to commencement a bookstore, we person a pistillate who wants to commencement a gallery," Minami said. "We're looking for idiosyncratic with the concern thought and the perseverance to marque it."
The six businesses selected for the Pop-Up Place volition not lone person the archetypal six months of their rent paid for, but they volition besides beryllium eligible for workshops the instauration volition signifier to assistance the concern owners recognize their business' fullest potential.
"It's beauteous breathtaking due to the fact that we're conscionable hoping to get a radical that is consenting to enactment unneurotic to enactment each different and physique businesses successful Chinatown," Minami said.
The Pop-Up Place task is inactive successful its infancy and arsenic much applicants are selected, much accusation astir it volition beryllium made available, according to Minami.
Anyone funny tin interaction Minami astatine jan@chinatownfresno.org.
