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District of Columbia Industrial Areas Study DC Office of Planning Prepared by Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc. Sidebar: Sample Policies Job Training and Employment in Washington, DC ARCH (Action to Rehabilitate Community Housing) was established in Historic Anacostia in 1986 as a training-oriented development organization. ARCH began as an organization to encourage and train DC’s ‘at risk' residents in academic and carpentry skills while rehabilitating residential property in Anacostia. Today, ARCH has evolved to provide services including assessment, job training, career development, up-to- date technology, and personal counseling to ensure individuals and families access to quality education, livable wage jobs, cultural activities, affordable housing, neighborhood businesses, effective health and social services; while supporting the successful transition to a life-long journey of education, self-sufficiency, and community awareness. In 2003, ARCH finished a five-year development project on a new home in the historic Woolworth building; the new facility is a state of the art school with 16,000 square feet of usable space. The new training center's top floor offers academic classrooms, computer classrooms and computer labs with highspeed Internet access. The training center has locker areas, large lunchrooms, the skills lab, our version of a lecture room and offices for our teachers, counselors and caseworkers. Next door to the school is ARCH's Career Services Department and Executive offices, along with a small computer lab for students working with Job Developers – for a total of 20,000 square feet utilized for academics, training, counseling and career development. Visit http://www.archdc.org/ for more information. ACE Mentors: Developing New Professionals Founded by principals of leading design and construction firms, ACE is an after-school mentoring program for high school students interested in exploring career opportunities in architecture, engineering and construction management. Comprised of a “unique partnership of schools and universities, architects, interior designers, engineers, construction companies, professional organizations, and related corporations,” ACE volunteers from these fields mentor high school students by introducing them to the broad range of people and projects within the construction industry. Students tour project offices and visit active construction sites, and mentors present students with challenging real-world projects. For more information about the ACE program, visit http://www.ace-mentor-dc.org/index.html Industrial Investment and Retention: Boston’s Back Streets Boston has a policy of no net loss of industrial space and implemented the Back Streets program to “retain and grow viable industrial and commercial businesses through the strategic use of land, workforce and financial resources.” Back Streets “complement yet stand in contract to Main Street businesses,” as Back Street businesses are often “unknown and undervalued but are essential to the flow of goods” and significant employment centers in their own right. Backstreets targets the following sectors: Manufacturing — metal; chemical; high tech; printing and publishing. Wholesale — distribution; receiving; reselling. Commercial Services — business services; data management; security services; maintenance. Logistics — moving; transportation; warehousing; storage. Building and contractors — general contractors; subcontractors. - 91 -
District of Columbia Industrial Areas Study DC Office of Planning Prepared by Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc. Food Processing and Importing — fish and meat processing; food production. Economic development plans were adopted for each of the city industrial zones to identify land use, circulation, business and workforce services, image development, and infrastructure improvements. Stronger zoning review guidelines are being developed, including review clauses that protect existing small businesses for situations when development proposals seek to convert industrial land and buildings to office, commercial, residential or institutional use. The program provides real estate services including development and site finding assistance, workforce development including job-readiness services such as Boston's Career Centers, neighborhood English language and job training programs, and the Youth Opportunity Journal, business assistance services including one stop shopping for zoning, permitting, city department resources, and financing and partnerships such as low-interest loans, a dedication of city capital funds to upgrade industrial roadways, sidewalks & lighting, industrial development authority financing, and local development corporation loans. Back Streets businesses can also avail themselves of planning services. The program provides to individual businesses and small districts a range of comprehensive industrial planning services including area and development planning services to: Protect industrial land use through planning and zoning Identify opportunities for expansion and development Identify transit and infrastructure improvements Identify public realm improvements. For more information, go to http://www.cityofboston.gov/bra/backstreets/backstreets.asp Buyer-Supplier Match Programs There are a number of examples of established buyer supplier match programs. A few of these are described below. The Kansas Match program, operated by the state Department of Commerce, connects Kansas manufacturers that are currently buying products from outside the state with Kansas suppliers of those same products. Participating suppliers register to be added to a supplier database. Participating buyers contact the program to request a product or service for purchase from an in-state supplier. Program staff conducts a search of the supplier database and additional resources to locate Kansas suppliers. They then forward the buyer a list of Kansas suppliers to contact directly. The National Minority Supplier Development Council manages MBISYS, a national database of over 15,000 minority-owned firms. The database is made available to the Council’s corporate members. The Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center, a publicly-funded manufacturing assistance program in eastern Pennsylvania, has used a private web-based service, ManufacturingQuote.com to help manufacturers find suppliers. Via the Web, buyers submit a request-for-quote that specifies the product they need, the price they are willing to pay, and when the product is needed. When a supplier responds to a request on the Web site with a proposal, the buyer is notified via e-mail and told to check the Web site to see the proposal. - 92 -
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