Small business is taking another crack at managing a successful Ventnor Business Association. Previous attempts have fallen flat.
As a follow up to last week’s breakfast meeting at Northbeach Cafe & Creamery, about 75 Ventnor business entrepreneurs met at Santucci’s on Wednesday night Nov 17.
How do we boost business? How do we increase commercial and retail appeal of Ventnor?
Support continues to grow.
Michael Chiat of the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce was guest speaker, along with Ventnor Commissioners Landgraf and Kriebel.
Dowd: Vital to identify and achieve a small win before start of Summer 2022.
- Develop mission statement with clearly stated goals.
- Design, print and distribute Ventnor business map.
- How to fund effort?
- City of Ventnor not likely to provide financial support, but willing to assist in other ways.
- Would nominal business tax/levy/fee on all Ventnor business make sense?
- Prioritize objectives.
- Appoint committee leadership.
- Volunteers needed.
Attendees included: Downbeach Home Repair, Heist Insurance, Apex Prime Realty, Farley & Ferry Real Estate, NJ Lifestyle Magazine, Sparkable Agency, Margate Business Association and a bunch of people talking about pickleball.
Need some street / sidewalk street scaping like the township did for the northbeach business owners.
Hi. I am moving to Ventnor full time from Ny and was considering starting a Pilates business on the beach as my retirement plan. In reviewing the rules of engagement and some Ventnor board meeting videos, I am curious and concerned about the revenue share and more importantly the potential privacy breach with my clients if we are have to use the Rec Desk for our client sign ups. Is this rule in stone? Seems very restrictive and not business friendly but perhaps this was just a proposal and not a requirement.
Definitely look into the rules. The permit people have played some shell game with some funds and you want to make sure you don’t pay more than you need to. Ventnor is trying to engage small businesses more than ever before and need to make sure it’s a “tax friendly” environment for everyone to operate in.
My neighbor and I were just talking about the 2024 proposed revenue share rules that we heard about. Can residents and tax payers vote on this? Is this even permissable? Does Atlantic City or Margate have the same requirements? We thought the beach towns were trying to help small businesses after Covid , even those operating on public property with permits, not nickle and dime them out of more money. Any info you have would be appreciated.