Building a business network, one relationship at a time
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"Grow Blue Springs," is the city's first formal Business Retention and Expansion Program. Led by the Blue Springs EDC's Business Outreach Manager, Sher Lopez, the program is designed to:
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Save jobs
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Create new jobs
- Uncover obstacles to growth and expansion
- Enhance overall relationships with local employers
See Sher's article in the "BREI-Business Retention & Expansion International June 2010 Newsletter" Click Here
 Click on picture to see our online publication dedicated to supporting and assisting our local business community.
Business Outreach Means Face-to-Face Partnering
The Blue Springs EDC offers site visits paired with a professional business survey tool called Synchronist. This program monitors changing marketplace dynamics and provides valuable information that enables community leaders, policymakers, elected officials and city staff to make growth sensitives decisions.
Efforts include tracking industry specific opportunities, contemporary legislative issues, and new development opportunities.
Workforce Development Means Retention to Our Employers
Our trained staff knows what it takes to successfully recruit new workers, cultivate company-wide skills and facilitate professional development. In addition to provided sophisticated international trade assistance, liaison support and resource management, we provide workforce readiness initiatives through many community and state partnerships: |
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"Our business community deserves recognition and support for its substantial role in shaping Blue Springs. Progress means more than attracting new investment, it's also focusing on current employers so they can flourish."
Sher Lopez, Business Outreach Manager
Contact Sher at:
(816) 228-0210
slopez@bluespringsedc.com
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- Nationally Accredited Customer Service/Retail Training Program
- Missouri Incentives/Information Seminars
- Missouri Enterprise
- OneKC Wired
- Entrepreneurial-focused efforts (KC SourceLink, FastTrack and UCM, Small Business and Technology Development Center)
- Business Retention Council
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"I particularly value BSEDC for its knowledge of the growth of retail projects in Blue Springs and access to community members. Collaboration with BSEDC on the National Retail Training Program and the Cusomer NRF National Service and Sales certificates has allowed Metropolitan Community College to provide information about this opportunity to more members of the Blue Springs community."
Clare Roberts
Community Relations
Metropolitan Community College (MCC) - Blue River