Box Bazaar Brings Opportunities for Businesses

According to the city, the park businesses were chosen because they had a connection to the area. There will be family events and live music to help make it a community hub. 

Since the selected businesses were required to have a connection to the community, the city had a rigorous selection process that began in November. They received 46 business applications, which they narrowed down to 14, and in December, those 14 businesses gave five-minute pitches on their businesses. From there, the final six were selected. 

According to the city, the main goal for the Box Bazaar is "to advance equitable economic development by creating a business incubator space with low barriers of entry for aspiring entrepreneurs who might otherwise be excluded from traditional marketplaces. A parallel goal is to create a community space that is inviting, easily accessible, and thoughtfully programmed to help create an entire community as envisioned in the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan." 

Matt Dugan, from the City of Austin’s Planning and Zoning Department, said “For one it creates a neighborhood center for the community of the community by the community and second it provides these equitable economic development opportunities for folks that have a great business idea but might need a little help getting over that barrier to start their own business." 

 
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