About Us – Business Development Center

Our Mission

Great Plains Business Development Center is a comprehensive business assistance program that creates and fosters an entrepreneurial “ecosystem” for start-up, early-stage firms, or firms expanding product or services with the goal of improving their chances to grow into healthy, sustainable, and self-sufficient companies. The Great Plains Business Development Center will help nurture entrepreneurial and economic development in the community by providing affordable office space, services, training, mentoring, and a network of professional advisors.

Goals of the Programs

Foster the community’s entrepreneurial climate
A viable product or service
Potential for job creation for the local community
Diversify our local economy
Retain emerging businesses in our community
Demonstrate a need for the incubation process
Capital/Funding that covers start-up cost
Completed business plan
Willingness to be mentored and participate in the incubation process
Demonstrate potential to increase the local tax base
Provide a space that allows local food producers to develop their products in a legal and efficient way
Encourage and nurture the commercialization of emerging artists in the community

Meet the Team

Cody Holt

Business Development Center Coordinator
Full Bio

Dana Newsom

Business Center Secretary

HOW TO BECOME A TENANT

Start your planning today to become a successful tenant of the Business Development Center. We will contact you and answer any questions that you might have about how to start your journey to success.

Your journey to success starts here!