The Red Wing Innovation Incubator
As mentioned below, much of the year has been taken
up with the generation of the Red Wing Creative
Economy report.
Related, and even more of a time sink, has been the
initiation of the Red Wing Innovation Incubator.
This is a physical space dedicated to help grow and
mentor new businesses in the Red Wing Community.
This activity is being driven by Red Wing Downtown
Main Street and our involvement is because of a firm
belief that the stronger the local economy is, the
stronger our business can become.
Visit the web site and see what the hub-bub is all
about. Red Wing
Innovation Incubator.
Busy, busy , busy...
It
has been busier here than it might appear.
Earlier this year, we became involved in a project to
try and measure the local Creative Economy and
contrast it to other communities. Armed with this
information, the goal becomes to make defensible
recommendations going forward.
This is important to our business for obvious
reasons, but it is also important to the community
because this is where the economy is growing very
rapidly.
We couldn't (or even shouldn't) do a significant
project like this alone. We partnered with the
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, Red Wing
Downtown Main Street, Inc., Anderson Center at Tower
View, Red Wing Arts Association, ArtReach and the
Sheldon Theatre of Performing Arts.
This is good company to keep and adds credibility to
the final report.
We are proud of the final report and encourage you to
download your own
copy.