Grandmont Rosedale selected for national retail attraction program

Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp. is one of five community development corporations from around the nation that has been selected to participate in a national retail attraction training program.

The Retail Attraction and Dealmaking Applied Training, as it is called, is co-sponsored by Local Initiative Support Organization's Commercial Markets Advisory Service and the International Council of Shopping Centers, or ICSC.

The program is comprised of three learning opportunities:

• Web-based training sessions;
• The services of a retail marketing consultant to help develop a neighborhood business attraction marketing strategy; and
• The assignment of a local mentor that is a real estate professional and a member of ICSC.
  

The training will be tested with Grandmont Rosedale's appearance at the ICSC deal-making event to be held in Detroit in July.

“This whole effort is geared towards culminating in that event,” says Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp.'s executive director, Tom Goddeeris. “We’ll be meeting face to face with some businesses with the potential to locate here.”

Source: Tom Goddeeris, Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp.
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh