calendar at a glance
june 1, 2012
First Fridays in the Depot District: 5:00P-9:00P
june 1, 2012
TechPoint’s New Economy New Rules Webcast: “Understanding the JOBS Act and Its Positive Impact on Funding Availability”: 8:00A-9:30A @ the Innovation Center
first fridays in the depot district cruisin’ richmond
june 2, 2012
Bubbles Bites & Bach event at the Lamplight Inn at the Leland @ 6:00P
june 11 - July 6, 2012 S.T.E.P.U.P. Program @ the Innovation Center
june 18 - 29, 2012
Marketing Workshop with Tim Scales @ the Innovation Center
june 19, 2012
Center City MeetUP @ The Innovation Center: 8:00A-9:00A
June 27, 2012
“Accounting for Your Business: Setting up QuickBooks (Beyond the Excel Spreadsheet)” - Center City Educational Series @ The Innovation Center: 11:00A-12:00P
CONTACT US: Center City Development Corp. Uptown Innovation Center 814 East Main Street Richmond, Indiana 47374 Phone: 765.962.8151 E-mail: info@mycentercity.com Web: www.mycentercity.com
Flyer courtesy of The Parker Company
First Fridays in the Depot District started back up on May 4, 2012 and will continue through October 2012. There will be Free/Reserved Parking for Car Club Members on Elm and Under 27 N. Bridge. They are bringing back Cruising! Come down and cruise the streets of the Historic Depot District and Downtown Richmond every First Friday this summer. Enjoy FREE Live Music at the at the 4th Floor Blues Club Parking Lot (open to any age), a Beer Tent featuring Richmond’s Brewery - New Boswell Beer, Food Tents, and more!
The first, First Friday was a huge success thanks to the help and collaboration of business owners and Center City volunteers. The Depot District appreciates your continued support, which helps Center City continue to have events for the community. We are all helping make Richmond a better and exciting place to live and visit. Please call Rick Parker for more information at (765) 966-3614 or contact Center City at (765) 962-8151 or at kaitlinv@mycentercity.com. You can also check Richmond Furniture Gallery’s Events website at http://www.
richmondfurnituregallery.com/festivals.php to
check out what’s going on in the Depot.
support center city new center city members Center City would like to thank all of the community members, board members, and business owners that came out to our free strawberry sundae open house at the Innovation Center on May 15, 2012. We had a great turnout and were able to meet a lot of new faces interested in Richmond’s Central Business District. We received several new Center City Memberships that day including: Business Memberships Midtown Pharmacy The Music Pantry BSN Sports Contemporary Consulting DerCo Internet Broadcasting Doxpop Individual Memberships Lynn Knight Lynn Johnstone Mary Jo Clark We would like to give a special thanks to our board members that helped out that day, as well: Board Members Randy Baker, Tim Scales, Roger Richert, Rhett Baumgartner, Lynn Knight, Lynn Johnstone, Melissa Matney, Mary Jo Clark, Dan Dickman, Mike Blum, Tony Foster, & Amanda VanAusdal. If you would like a membership to Center City and would like to support your community, you may pick up a form at the Innovation Center. Please contact us at Center City with any questions you may have. Thanks again to everyone for making it a successful day and for working together to help Center City grow!
historic preservation conference A Sustainable approach to the Shrinking City Richmond Columbian Properties in Richmond, Indiana is hosting a daylong historic preservation conference at the William G. Scott House and two adjacent churches all located within one block in the Starr National Register District. The conference will feature nationally known preservationist Donovan Rypkema who will present a new study that focuses on twenty older industrial cities dealing with the consequences of long-term population loss, high poverty rates, a shrinking tax base, and a lagging employment and business growth. Guest speakers will present positive solutions to the shrinking cities such as land banking, economic development, heritage tourism, and citizen participation. The event will take place on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at: Richmond Columbian Properties 204 North 10th Street Richmond, IN 47375 (765) 962-9526 The cost is $35.00 per person (coffee, donuts, and lunch included). The deadline to register is June 7th.
Register on the web at http://www. waynet.org/nonprofit/columbian/ or mail a $35.00 check payable to the Richmond Columbian Properties to: Richmond Columbian Properties William G. Scott House 204 North Tenth/ PO Box 294 Richmond, IN 47375 For more information please contact Matt Stegall by phone: 765-962-9526 or by E-mail: stegam5@aol.com. Conference Agenda: 8:00 - 8:45 am Registration and Coffee 8:45 – 9:00 am Welcome 9:00 – 9:45 am Margo Warminski, Cincinnati Preservation Association 10:00 – 10:45 am Frank Hagaman, Land Bank of Indianapolis 11:00 – 11:45 am Citywide Development, Dayton City Officials Noon – 1:30 pm Lunch and Keynote Speaker Donavan Rypkema 1:45 – 2:30 pm Zachary Bendict, Downtown Redevelopment 2:45 – 3:30 pm Brady Kress, Heritage Tourism, Dayton Ohio 3:45 – 4:30 pm Panel discussion with all speakers
center city shopping passport to happen the 3rd & 4th week of july Center City will be hosting the First Annual “Center City Progressive Shopping” event in Richmond from Monday, July 16 to Friday, July 27. As a business owner, you can choose to be a part of this 2-week event by simply agreeing to donate a gift certificate or prize from your business and by offering special promotions or discounts during this time period. Center City will provide the printed passports for shoppers. Shoppers will be able to pick up their “shopping passports” (which will be similar to the one pictured below, with prizes listed on the back and
businesses and their promotions printed on the front) at various locations throughout Center City throughout June and July. During the 2-week event, persons can shop the merchants on the card and benefit from the business’s special offers and discounts. Each shopper will get a stamp or validation upon shopping at each merchant and once the passport is filled up, it will be entered into a drawing to win the prizes that the businesses donated. Please contact Center City if your business would like to participate.
movie night on the parking garage The Richmond Parks Department and Center City Development Corporation will be putting on a FREE Downtown Movie Night in August when the 2012-2013 school year gets ready to begin. Please contact Blair Beach at the Parks Department at bbeach@ richmondindiana.gov for more information or contact Center City Development Corporation at 962-8151.
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ICL Graduation community service projects announced The Institute for Creative Leadership celebrated the most current workshop’s graduation with a celebratory dinner at the Lamplight Inn at the Leland on Thursday, May 24, 2012. Workshop participants, their guests, committee members, and the workshop leaders, Mary Jo Clark & Pat Heiny, gathered for a meal catered by Jennifer Ferrell. This celebration was an opportunity for everyone in the workshop to gather together one last time to learn about each team’s projects that were inspired by lessons they learned during the workshop. This group shared a lot of great ideas for community service projects that they will implement as groups from this point forward.
doxpop nominated for mira award
a healthy city
in it services excellence & innovation category
What would it be like to claim a positive identity for Richmond? What would it be like to be “A City for the Growing People?” “A City of the Emotionally and Physically Healthy People?” “A City Expanding on Being ‘An All American City’ and being ‘An Emotionally and Physically Healthy All American City?”
Our own local business, Doxpop, LLC was proudly nominated in the category of IT Services Excellence & Innovation for the 2012 TechPoint Mira Awards.
We can imagine how a positive identity like this one could attract businesses and people to Richmond in a very positive way. Let’s EXPLORE, IMAGINE, & ENVISION what this could be like at CURIOSITY GATHERINGS beginning in June at the Innovation Center, presented by Loretta Gula. To learn more information about this new informational series at the Innovation Center, please contact Loretta Gula at 993-4274, ACreatingCenter@aol.com or at lgula@ aol.com.
june 2011: summer issue | design by j. Kaitlin Vaughn
positive identity
TechPoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative, announced the finalists for its 13th annual Mira Awards presented by BKD CPAs & Advisors. This year’s Mira Awards finalists stretched across the board, including the marketplace, established corporations, preeminent research institutions, fledgling startups, creative agencies, hightech laboratories, and emerging technologies.
Please take a moment out of your day to congratulate Doxpop, LLC and their great achievements that brought positive energy and press to Richmond’s Center City. Doxpop, LLC 822 East Main St Richmond, IN 47374 (765) 965-7363 http://www.doxpop.com/
Now in its 13th year, the TechPoint Mira Awards honor outstanding businesses, startups, schools and educators, organizations and individuals for their contributions to the state’s technology-related economy.
S.t.e.p.U.p. group to occupy innovation center in june Student Training Entrepreneur Program with Unlimited Potential The STEPUP Program will be hosting their program this year at the Innovation Center from June 11, 2012 to July 6, 2012. Application forms can be picked up at the Innovation Center. “Since its inception in 2001 by Timothy and Pamela Coffey, the mission of the Crystal Dreams Foundation has been to provide local community support and educational assistance to deserving, at-risk students. In our local communities, too many children fall off the track to success because of the increasing cost of higher education. The Crystal Dreams Scholarship Program provides financial assistance to those students who might not be able to further their education without additional financial
support. Our goal is to put them back in the race by providing the support they need to succeed. Our goal for 2011 is to continue making a positive, lasting impact on the lives of youth in our community through our events and programs. We are hopeful that in doing so, they will learn the value of giving back, and will use the Foundation as a way to give back to their own communities. Program content includes Life Skills, Personal Enrichment, Team Building, Job Shadowing and Hands-On Work Training with the focus of identifying, developing and nurturing potential entrepreneurs. Classroom activities are in the morning of the daily schedule. Including life skills, personal enrichment, and team building. The
remaining time will be spent in off premise activities or on the job training. Job shadowing will include various entrepreneurial businesses around the Richmond community. At the completion of the summer program, students will receive a certificate of completion along with a framed group picture acknowledging their participation in S.T.E.P. U.P. through a commencement event where participants, sponsors and supporters will be recognized. The Executive Director, Thomas Ogle, will be running this program. Teaching the life skills curriculum is Cortney Bridgeforth.” (Excerpt from the S.T.E.P.U.P. Entrepreneurial Summer Work Program Facebook page)