Financial Resource

The RCEDC finance team, Business Lending Partners (BLP), in partnership with Community State Bank, assembled an unprecedented lineup of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and financial professionals to deliver powerful insights on how to create, sustain, and grow a business using local resources.

Main Street America and American Express are pleased to announce that applications for the Backing Small Businesses Grant are now open now through Friday, April 7! The grant program will award $2.3 million in small business grants to 350 eligible businesses in the U.S. and territories.

After renting offices and working from home for a year, Attorney David Patton, owner of Patton Law Office – a boutique law firm serving Racine and Kenosha Counties – purchased and renovated the building at 1636 Taylor Ave in Racine, Wis.

In this edition of the Quarterly BLP Newsletter, we celebrate the projects completed, the investments made, and the money invested throughout Wisconsin’s small business community

Following nearly 10 years of building clientele, advancing the practice, and leasing space, Dr. Sally Brown and her daughter, Dr. Tera Pfarr, purchased a 6,000-sf building to expand the business operations of Brown Family Chiropractic in the Village of Mount Pleasant

RCEDC and its finance team, Business Lending Partners (BLP), in partnership with Fox Communities Credit Union, has assembled an unparalleled lineup of industry experts, self-made entrepreneurs, and business leaders to deliver an event tailored to business owners, the commercial lending community and real estate professionals. Food included.

The Wisconsin Fast Forward (WFF) program is a state-funded
grant program that provides employer-led worker training grants. Applications are now being accepted and are due by September 27, 2022.

Join RCEDC as we host this food and business networking event, where local business owners share their stories about how they navigated the path to success.

Are you considering starting a business? Are you a new business? Learn how to access local resources to help you start and grow your business during this 90-minute session. Hear from resource experts from the Small Business Development Center at UW-Parkside; WWBIC; and Racine County Economic Development Corporation (RCEDC) Business Lending Partners.

To help encourage business improvement, retention and attraction, the Village of Sturtevant created a new program with favorable loan terms – little to no equity requirement, low-interest, and principal deferrals.