NJBAC Business Enhancement Services Overview

NJBAC acts as a free and accessible business support ecosystem that serves as a toolkit to help individual businesses, business organizations or districts, and municipalities reach their prosperity goals.

NJBAC’s offices provide:

• Support and Guidance for Businesses, Entrepreneurs & Business Organizations
  • Technical Assistance/Advocacy/Real-time Problem Solving
  • Site Location for New, Growing, & Expanding Businesses
  • Triaging of and Connection to Funding Opportunities
  • Training for a Variety of Business Topics
  • Targeted Export Promotion Grants
  • Commercial Cannabis Training & Support
• Planning & Prosperity Assistance to Municipalities
• Business Enhancement Services for Municipalities and Districts

 

As part of its work with and for NJ’s municipalities, NJBAC also focuses on helping to elevate business prosperity in communities and mixed-use commercial districts in NJ. These Business Enhancement Services include projects for which we:

• Provide support for local business enhancement goals to local governments and district management entities.
• Share technical assistance and guidance for creating and sustaining effective and resilient local economies made up of successful businesses.
• Connect our clients with technical and financial resources and programs to foster and facilitate district revitalization.

Municipal officials and leaders of district management entities working to foster prosperity in their districts can contact NJBAC for assistance, feedback, and problem-solving on singular issues and opportunities, or for more comprehensive questions and goals.

To that end, NJBAC Business Enhancement Services for municipalities and districts may include:

• One-Off Technical Assistance Support
• Best Practices
• Real-Time Problem Solving
• State Agency/Department Networking/Advocacy
• Online “Crash Course” Presentations
  • Fast-Paced Overview of NJBAC’s Services & Approach
  • Business Enhancement Connection Emails
    • Twice-monthly updates on best practices, technical support and grant opportunities
  • District Management Support & Assistance
    • Creating, Managing, & Enhancing District Management in Municipalities
  • Business Enhancement Special Assessments
  • On-Site and Virtual

Best Practice Business Enhancement Services may include:

• Adaptable Templates for Immediate Use
• Ordinances or Policies that can be adapted to local needs.
• Other Technical or Funding Resources (from a variety of partners) in support of recommendations

A NJBAC Business Enhancement (BE) Special Assessment includes:

• Targeted district management guidance and implementation planning to municipalities and non-profits.
• On-site live assessment walk-through or online assessment walk-through

The BE Special Assessment Report is typically short, visual, and actionable, focused on mostly tactical projects along with some policy recommendations as warranted, and provides best practices, programs, technical assistance or funding opportunities and ordinances to save the client time and money as they seek to move to action. It may include a Business Enhancement Punch List, which utilizes renderings to visualize the kinds of change that are possible for buildings, streetscapes and the public realm in each district.

A BE Special Assessment Report may also include market data considerations, traffic data and breakdowns and other relevant sources of data to provide background on the district’s potential capacity and challenges.