|Newark Life Q&A|
Leann Moore
Executive Director, The Newark Partnership
Leann Moore, executive director of The Newark Partnership.
Photo by Richard L. Gaw
To peruse Main Street in Newark with Leann Moore, the executive director of The Newark Partnership since February, is to be given a tour of the ever-changing landscape of a thriving city made up of businesses, a major university and neighbors. Recently, Newark Life met Leann at Little Goat Coffee to discuss how The Newark Partnership helps bring those communities together. Newark Life: Let’s first explore the key components of what The Newark Partnership (TNP) does, initiative by initiative. Let’s start by talking about what TNP does in promoting economic development in Newark. Moore: First and foremost, we are a membership organization so while we serve the whole city, we pay particular attention to our members – those in business, those in the non-profit sector, residents and students. We work with our business members in partnership with advertising, and in helping them put on events – such as al fresco dining nights -- that help add flavor and variety to Newark and draw people to come here. In addition, we are working with the City of Newark to help fine tune what tools we can develop that would help 26
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draw businesses here. We updated their “Red Tape Tips” document that spells out all of the things to know if you’re going to bring your business to Newark (i.e., permitting, the overall process, etc.). We also partnered with LoopLink to create an interactive map – available on our website – that provides an overview of all the commercial spaces that are available for lease or sale in Newark. v TNP also connects and supports community-based nonprofit organizations. How are we seeing this component at work? In 2019, the first step TNP took was to create a landscape analysis, and it told us that there are over 130 non-profit organizations incorporated within the nine square-mile
