Mid-City Business Association
If you are a Mid-City business, then you’ll want to join the Mid-City Business Association. The MCBA is a stand-alone LLC that was formed in late 2006 to:
- Provide a unified voice for Mid-City Businesses on issues with the City, State and other Business groups;
- To allow area business owners to network; and
- To utilize economies of scale to help neighborhood businesses garner better pricing for common services (i.e. legal, accounting, insurance to name a few).
The MCBA is currently borrowing web space from MCNO until they are able to get their own site up and running.
Meetings
The MCBA meets the 3rd Thursday of each month at various locations in Mid-City. If your business would like to host an MCBA meeting, please contact the Interim President at n_najiola@yahoo.com.
The next MCBA meeting is Thursday, April 19th from 4-5pm at Grace Episcopal Church, 3700 Canal Street. The featured speaker’s are Jerry Williams (Community Affairs) and Lavon Wright (Commercial Affairs) from the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Management. An opportunity to hear first-hand about development projects
The MCBA Board of Directors
Since the MCBA is a new organization, board members were elected for an interim term which expires in June 2006. New elections will be held at that time. Current board members are:
President - Nikki Najiola of HouseRaising Inc.
Vice President - Edward Young of Floorcrafters
Secretary - Robert Rivard, Attorney
Treasurer - David A Greengold of Juan’s Flying Burrito
Membership To become a member of MCBA, contact the Treasurer at caballerojudio@hotmail.com Include your name, business name, email address, phone, fax and mailing address. Initial membership fees are $50.
Boundaries
The initial boundaries of the MCBA are City Park Ave from I-10 to Moss Street, along Moss Street to Orleans Avenue; along Orleans Avenue to N White Street, then following N & S White to I-10 and following the I-10 corridor back to I-10 and City Park Ave.
Discussion Group
To foster communications between business owners and to provide ease of communications of events and items of interest, we have developed a Yahoo based online discussion group. To get involved, join the Mid-City Business Discussion Group!