Update: Next meeting of the Lake Worth Business Alliance has been scheduled.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, Nov. 28th
(more details below).

Everyone in the City of Lake Worth’s business community, those concerned about the future of our businesses, and everyone looking to possibly open a new business here in Lake Worth are invited and strongly encouraged to attend the next and future meetings of the Lake Worth Business Alliance.

It’s very important to understand this IS NOT a meeting to address any one problem or particular issue a business or investor may be having. However, following the meeting there will be many in attendance who will be very able and eager to give you good ideas and possible solutions.

The Lake Worth Business Alliance is about THE BIG PICTURE. How everyone working together, an alliance, can bring about the changes necessary so the next time when you hear the words “Lake Worth is open for business” you know those words are true and not just a slogan.

The initial get-together of those interested in starting a business alliance met at Tacos al Carbon on October 18th. About 30 people were in attendance on a rainy night it needs to be noted. Following that meeting a small group of volunteers met twice to talk about the organizational structure. The last one happened yesterday (Nov. 14th) at TooJay’s in the Downtown to discuss more about the beginning stages and narrow the focus of the group, e.g., a mission statement.

Lake Worth City Manager Michael Bornstein is highly supportive and has attended two meetings thus far. It’s his belief the business community here in this City needs to be more engaged and involved plus the City needs a clear, reliable, and consistent way to communicate its message to the entire business community and vice versa, City-wide, something that’s been lacking for far too long.

It was encouraging to see new faces with fresh ideas at the meeting yesterday and it was great hearing what they all had to say. A lot of great ideas emerged like using the hashtag #mylakeworth to promote good news and positive messages about the City of Lake Worth. We concluded the meeting asking everyone to come up with concepts for a Lake Worth Business Alliance mission statement. These will be collected via email from everyone already on our list and shouldn’t take very long. Check back in a few days and will share some of those suggestions. 

We need everyone’s input! If you want to be involved and are not yet on the mailing list send your contact information via email to: wesblackman@gmail.com

These ideas will be printed out and shared with everyone at the next meeting.

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 28th at 8:00 a.m. at Toojay’s on Lake Ave.
in Downtown Lake Worth.

We would like each person to bring along someone new that hasn’t attended a meeting thus far.

Some of the themes discussed about the focus of the Lake Worth Business Alliance are paying very close attention to what is coming up at City Commission meetings and at City boards as well that impact the business community. The geographic area covered by this business alliance is limited to the municipal limits of Lake Worth to help better define the City’s identity and branding, improve business-to-business networking and for attracting more customers for all businesses.

Events can be promoted and businesses can coordinate activities, advertising, and marketing related to those activities, the idea being the better “branded” the City of Lake Worth is the better “branded” our business community and services will become. Some upcoming events discussed included the Tree Lighting ceremony coming up on December 1st at the Cultural Plaza as well as the Holiday Parade on December 16th.

Hope to see a big crowd on November 28th at Toojay’s. FYI: we’ll be running a very tight meeting with an agenda focused on the goals moving forward. These meetings will not be an “airing of grievances”; it’s time to move forward. The most important part of the meeting will be comments and suggestions regarding how best to achieve this new organization’s goals. So be prepared to speak your mind or come with your ideas written down and turned in at this meeting. You are encouraged to email them ahead of time.

Not sure if you can attend the meeting coming up? Then send your ideas to me and I’ll forward that information on to the organizers. Once again, the email address is: wesblackman@gmail.com