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SBDC, TAC host open house today
Bob Bennett
Issue date: 3/7/08 Section: News
Originally published: 3/6/08 at 4:03 PM EST
Last update: 3/6/08 at 4:01 PM EST
The Technical Assistance Center and the Small Business Development Center are having an open house between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. today at 194 US Oval.
The goal of the open house is to introduce the public and campus community to the SBDC and the TAC.
Both were previously located on the Plattsburgh State campus, but relocated in August because the new location puts them under the same roof with OneWorkSource, an organization that connects employers and workers.
The move has provided more privacy for clients with its added office space, and now has a more professional appearance, Dee Clark, regional director of the SBDC said.
Victoria Johnson, economic development specialist at TAC, said accessibility to OneWorkSource and the SBDC allows them all to help a single client in one fell swoop.
The added parking at the new location benefits the clients of the TAC and the SBDC, but PSUC interns will have to travel farther and faculty members will have to work more diligently Clark said.
The open house is happening now, almost seven months after the three businesses moved to their new location, because they are just now fully operational.
"We weren't ready to say 'come see us,'" Howard Lowe, director of economic development at the TAC, said. "Even Target has an opening followed by a grand opening."
PSUC President John Ettling said the TAC and the SBDC are important because PSUC doesn't have a graduate technical or economic program to help the community.
"The college is embedded in the community. It's not just a place where faculty and students gather," Ettling added.
The TAC and the SBDC do consulting work for small businesses in the North Country that do not have the capacity to figure out their own business plans, acquire money for starting businesses or supplement their own technical needs.
The SBDC and the TAC are much like educational divisions of PSUC, but both work with individuals and have a much more practical effect, Clark and Lowe said.
The goal of the open house is to introduce the public and campus community to the SBDC and the TAC.
Both were previously located on the Plattsburgh State campus, but relocated in August because the new location puts them under the same roof with OneWorkSource, an organization that connects employers and workers.
The move has provided more privacy for clients with its added office space, and now has a more professional appearance, Dee Clark, regional director of the SBDC said.
Victoria Johnson, economic development specialist at TAC, said accessibility to OneWorkSource and the SBDC allows them all to help a single client in one fell swoop.
The added parking at the new location benefits the clients of the TAC and the SBDC, but PSUC interns will have to travel farther and faculty members will have to work more diligently Clark said.
The open house is happening now, almost seven months after the three businesses moved to their new location, because they are just now fully operational.
"We weren't ready to say 'come see us,'" Howard Lowe, director of economic development at the TAC, said. "Even Target has an opening followed by a grand opening."
PSUC President John Ettling said the TAC and the SBDC are important because PSUC doesn't have a graduate technical or economic program to help the community.
"The college is embedded in the community. It's not just a place where faculty and students gather," Ettling added.
The TAC and the SBDC do consulting work for small businesses in the North Country that do not have the capacity to figure out their own business plans, acquire money for starting businesses or supplement their own technical needs.
The SBDC and the TAC are much like educational divisions of PSUC, but both work with individuals and have a much more practical effect, Clark and Lowe said.
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