Tennessee Quick Facts
Sam Rayburn, longtime Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in Roane County in 1882 and lived there until 1887, when his family moved to Texas.
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Schedule Alert
June 3
Memphis
Commissioner Kisber will attend the China Business Forum Luncheon at 12 p.m.
June 4
Nashville
Commissioner Kisber will attend a reception honoring "Order of the Rising Sun" conferment for Edward Nelson at 5:30 p.m.
To request ECD Commissioner Matt Kisber to speak or attend an event,
please contact Jennifer Alward at (615) 2531852 or jennifer.alward@state.tn.us
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News Briefs
Business & Community Development
Main Street/BERO
BERO Helps B&B Owners Get Loan
A West Tennessee BERO Specialist assisted a minority-owned bed and breakfast obtain a loan for its start-up business through the state's new Small Minority and Women-Owned (SMOB) loan program. Southwest Tennessee Development District, the program's regional lending partner, made the loan to Go Getaway Bed and Breakfast, located in Munford, Tennessee. Chris and Isaac Gordon, both retired Navy personnel, are converting a 100 year old historic home into a bed and breakfast located on Tipton Street just off Munford square. It is scheduled to open in September. Sharon Taylor McKinney assisted the business with finding access to capital and marketing.
Main Street, BERO to Host Consultant
Business owners in Tennessee will have the opportunity to hear nationally-known business consultant Jon Schallert when he conducts a series of seminars in Kingsport, Fayetteville and Dyersburg in June. Sponsored jointly by the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development's Business Enterprise Resource Office and Tennessee Main Street Program, Schallert will present his acclaimed business improvement session, "Increasing Sales and Profits by Becoming a Destination Business."
The seminars are free, but seating is limited and registration is required. Call 1-800-872-7201 to register and for more information about attending the upcoming seminars. Pre-registration is available and onsite check-in and registration will begin for each seminar at 7:30 a.m. with the presentation following immediately from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
During the final portion of each seminar, representatives from BERO will talk with business owners about resources available in the state to help implement Schallert's strategies. Seminars will be held on the following dates in the following Main Street Communities:
Middle Tennessee: Wednesday, June 11
Fayetteville/Lincoln County Museum
521 Main Ave. South
Fayetteville, Tenn.
East Tennessee: Friday, June 13
Restoration Church
140 Broad St.
Kingsport, Tenn.
West Tennessee: Wednesday, June 18
Lannom Center for Business Development
2000 Commerce Ave.
Dyersburg, Tenn.
Schallert's sessions teach independent business owners how to turn their businesses into consumer "Destinations" that attract customers from many miles away, past other competitive outlets.
"The challenge for any business today, regardless of its location and surrounding demographics, is to create such a compelling offering that it is repeatedly visited by consumers. For a business to be a true Destination, it must also be able to draw customers from other cities and towns, miles away, past other, larger, more dominant competitors," Schallert said.
To learn more about Schallert before his visit to Tennessee, log on to his Web site, www.JonSchallert.com. Business owners can subscribe to Schallert's free "Reinvent Your Business" newsletter at the site.
In addition to the conference, Tennessee Main Street Program Managers from across the state will meet in downtown Columbia for the Summer Managers' Quarterly Main Street Meeting prior to the TPT Conference on Thursday, June 5. For additional information contact Kimberly Nyberg, Program Manager at kimberly.nyberg@state.tn.us.
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Recent News
Nashville Post:
"Postal Service to Build Massive Center Near Airport"
The U.S. Postal Service plans to build a 626,000-square-foot processing and distribution center near Nashville International Airport.
The new Nashville center will rise at Old Murfreesboro Pike and Faircloth Road on land owned by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority.
Panattoni Development Co. will oversee construction and is working with the USPS on traffic studies of the area. The new facility is likely to employ more than 1,500 people, though it's not clear how many of those will be new positions or if the planned center will replace the USPS' operations on the north side of the airport.
Calls to USPS and Panattoni officials seeking details were not returned this afternoon. Earlier today, the USPS said it will move its downtown Milwaukee processing center to a large new site southeast of that city.
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Internet traffic is growing faster than at any time since the boom of the late-1990s.
Places like Chattanooga are trying hard not to get stuck in the slow lane. Some 60 towns and small cities, including Bristol, Va.; Barnsville, Minn.; and Sallisaw, Okla., have built state-of-the-art fiber networks, capable of speeds many times faster than most existing connections from cable and telecom companies.
An additional two dozen municipalities, including Chattanooga and Clarksville, Tenn., have launched or are considering similar initiatives. The efforts highlight a battle over Internet policy in the United States.
Once the undisputed leader in the technological revolution, the U.S. now trails a growing number of countries in the speed, cost and availability of high-speed Internet. While cable and telecom companies are spending billions to upgrade their service, they're focusing their efforts mostly on larger U.S. cities.
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