Mayor Adams, SBS Commissioner Kim Hail Successful Rollout Of NYC Small Business Opportunity Fund

Mayor Adams, SBS Commissioner Kim Hail Successful Rollout Of NYC Small Business Opportunity Fund

February 13, 2023

NEW YORK – New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Tiny Small business Solutions Commissioner Kevin D. Kim now hailed the productive rollout of the NYC Compact Enterprise Possibility Fund. In the three weeks due to the fact the fund’s launch, a various team of extra than 10,500 little corporations from all 5 boroughs have submitted purposes for reduced-interest loans. The fund — designed probable by a community-non-public partnership among the town, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard Heart for Inclusive Development, and local group development economic establishments (CDFIs) — fulfills a objective established forth in Mayor Adams’ “Renew, Rebuild, Reinvent: A Blueprint for New York City’s Economic Recovery” approach.

“Small organizations characterize a vision, a exceptional set of competencies, the fulfillment of the American Desire, and, just as importantly, crucial companies to New Yorkers. Modest companies stored our town running  during the pandemic, and they are main the way on our economic recovery,” claimed Mayor Adams. “The unparalleled good results of the NYC Modest Enterprise Possibility Fund is a testament to the price of public-private partnership, alongside with the robust on-the-ground outreach led by Commissioner Kim and his workforce at SBS. The response to this initiative is additional proof that New York Town is not coming back again — New York Metropolis is again.”

“The impressive desire for the Opportunity Fund displays that we are providing the appropriate resources at the correct time to compact enterprises that want them the most,” explained Deputy Mayor for Economic and Workforce Enhancement Maria Torres-Springer. “With new organizations and work emerging across the metropolis, this injection of funds is just the gasoline our organizations require to prosper as we head into spring.”

“When opportunity knocked, extra than 10,500 little business entrepreneurs answered like genuine New Yorkers — speedy,” explained SBS Commissioner Kim. “This unprecedented good response is the immediate end result of robust door-to-door outreach, and historic coordination involving eight local community development money institutions, elected officials, company associations and grassroots local community teams. As we pause consumption of apps, our associates are functioning as immediately as feasible to procedure people in the pipeline and disburse resources to suitable tiny enterprises. This high level of demand demonstrates the value of planning courses centered on fairness, and we stand ready to help all company homeowners with a whole suite of additional cost-free services — such as assist with permits and violations, commercial leases, choosing personnel, and far more.”

The NYC Smaller Organization Chance Fund — the biggest public-personal financial loan fund directed at compact businesses in the city’s history — introduced on January 23, 2023. The fund features financial loans of up to $250,000 to qualified modest firms with a marketplace-leading curiosity rate of four percent, until it reaches $75 million. In the a few weeks due to the fact its launch, in excess of 10,500 little firms all over the metropolis have submitted applications as a result of the on the web portal. When they are reviewed in the city’s portal, the enterprises then work with taking part CDFIs to total their bank loan applications. The metropolis continues to supply a myriad of expert services for tiny organizations, which are essential to developing an equitable recovery during the 5 boroughs.

Corporations can indicator up to be notified of the status of the NYC Modest Business Opportunity Bank loan Fund on the internet.

Organizations searching to access no cost enable can dial 888-SBS-4NYC or go to SBS’s internet site

Bollinger B1, B2 slow rollout is frustratingly normal

Bollinger is still a privately financed company as 2021 closes. However, when I visited the company in suburban Detroit last week, Robert Bollinger hinted that that and other things could change in the new year.

“When we were looking into SPACs last summer, we realized it was way too early for that,” Bollinger told me. “We’ve built the next round of prototypes since then. And we’ve developed so much more on the commercial side, under the radar.” Now, he says, “A SPAC and an IPO is never off the table.”

Last week Bollinger took a major step in the pivot from startup to revenue-generating company with the announcement that its commercial Chass-E electric chassis will be available to one of the nation’s largest upfitters. Bollinger is working with EAVX, a unit of JB Poindexter, to ensure that the Chass-E is compatible for a variety of fleet vehicles that one of Poindexter’s upfitters could use.

A revenue stream from commercial sales has been viewed as a major advantage for Rivian, which is building 100,000 electric delivery vans for Amazon. Such a deal could help Bollinger as well.

Last week, during a visit to Bollinger’s engineering center, three engineers were seen pushing a partially assembled B1 from one bay to another. It’s a more production-intent version than the engineering mules the company has developed, Bollinger told me.

While engineers toil away getting the B1 ready for production, Bollinger has been making progress on other fronts. The company, Bollinger said, has letters of intent with a number of dealership groups and will have nationwide distribution when output begins.

Bollinger also said the company expects to end its quiet period in the first quarter of 2022 with manufacturing and financing news that will show a path to production.

But that path can and likely will have some unexpected detours. During a recent drive in a Rivian R1T, a company official pointed to a chrome accent trim piece on the steering wheel. “That cost us three weeks,” he said, explaining that the original supplier went out of business. It took Rivian almost a month to find a new company to make the replacement part, he said, and to ensure that quality and fit met the company’s specifications and standards.

Bollinger says his electric, four-wheel-drive truck remains the only Class 3, or medium-duty, EV and that he’s not worried about competitors.

“Even if you have a Ford F-150 electric for your day-to-day driver,” he said, “our vehicle might still be your crazy-ass toy that you play with on weekends.”