Member Directory

Membership Information

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Your membership and participation help keep UABA active and vibrant. With 200+ members, UABA is working for you at a time when the voices of small businesses

can make a difference. 

UABA Member Benefits include:

• strong, collective voice
• influence community decisions
• secure financial assistance
• collective marketing
• small business networking             
• online business directory
• business information center

UABA 2009 Accomplishments:

Hired Executive Director

UABA Mission & Logo

UABA Top Priorities: Parking, Business Support Fund, Business Preparation, Pedestrian Environment

Monthly Events included the following topics:

Business Support and Mitigation, Parking, Marketing / Branding, Seattle Experience, Legal Rights, GRAND OPENING, Save Our Businesses & Jobs Campaign, Senor Wong Story, University Avenue Project, Preparing for Light Rail Construction

Elected officials in attendance:

Council Members Stark, Carter, & Gordon, County Commissioners Carter & McLaughlin, State Representatives Murphy, Hausman, & Kahn, State Senators Anderson, Cohen, and Torres Ray, & Mayor Coleman

• Two UABA Surveys: small business issues (Winter 2009) & parking (December 2009)

• Membership Drive:  200+ members   
• Call for Action Campaign (3 editions)

• Testified and submitted letters of support to help pass Economic Development Finance Bill, HF 2088, that sets up the pilot $100,000 grant program in DEED that talks about mitigating the impact of "transportation construction." 
• Parking Position Statement adopted May 21
• Board of Directors & Filing for 501(c)(3) charitable status
• Business Information Center Opened in July
• Website
• Brochure
• Fundraising
• Streetscape Resolution adopted Dec. 2
• Parking Survey:  December

UABA leadership meetings with Elected Representatives:

• Mayor Coleman:  May & Dec.
• City Council Member Stark:  monthly updates and other issue related meetings
• City Council Member Carter:  2 meetings in Dec.
• County Commissioner Carter:  winter 2009 & Dec.
• County Commissioner McDonough:  Dec.
• Representative Cy Thao:  winter 2009
• Senator Torres Ray:  March
• Senator Pogemiller staff:  March
• Congress Member Ellison:  Nov.
• UABA leadership meetings with Met Council
• Media Coverage in Villager, Monitor, Business Finance & Commerce, Strib, Pioneer Press, MPR, TV News, and SPNN cable broadcasts.

Partnerships:

Hamline University School of Business, William Mitchell Community Development Clinic, CEE & Xcel, U7, Business Resources Collaborative, FRAN, Community Benefits Summit

UABA meets:

UABA meets the third Thursday of the month to provide a forum for University Avenue area business people to meet, learn about the Central Corridor light rail project, network, and share information for mutual benefit. UABA’s events and members have been featured in local newspapers, online news sources, radio, and cable TV.