Quechan Indian Tribe

The Quechan Indian Tribe Incubator Business Plan Is Intended to Serve as a Roadmap for the Tribe S Economic Development Administration Staff as It Launches and Manages a Reservation Base Tribal Business Incubator This Business Plan Will Ultimately Help Provide Individually Tailored Business Incubation and Other Business Services to Native Owned Businesses and Native Entrepreneurs to Overcome the Unique Obstacles They Confront and Provide Tools Necessary to Start and Grow Businesses That Offer Products and Services to the Quechan Indian Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California and Arizona Quechan Community to Serve Our Native Entrepreneurs While Expressing Out Tribal Culture and Sovereignty, So That We Can Support Indian Owned Economic Enterprises, and Create Sustainable Livelihoods in Order to Build a Thriving Market Based Economy for Our Reservation and Its Tribal Citizens the Former Pipa Market Building 475 Quechan Drive Is 1,754 Square Feet of Commercial Space and Is Available to Immediately House the Tribal Business Incubator the Facility Location Is a High Traffic Commercial Business Zone That Is Centrally Located Within the Reservation S North Indian Hill Redevelopment Plan Nihrp Area Boundary the Facility S Location, Available Parking, Reservation Transportation Network, and Proximity to Other North Indian Hill Facilities Are Attractive to Indian Owned Economic Enterprises and Their Customers From Across the Reservation and Surrounding Imperial County and Yuma County Community the Space Has the Capacity to House a Minimum of Five 5 Businesses, Depending on Participant Needs the Five Participants Will Likely Be Assigned Working Space in the Large Tribal Incubator Common Area It Is Also Possible to House One or Two Participants With Light Manufacturing or Assembly Businesses in the Unfinished Space in the Center of the Tribal Incubator Building This Physical Workspace Will Permit Native Owned Businesses and Native Entrepreneurs to Conduct Business and Collaborate With Other Native Businesses and Native Entrepreneurs the Objective of Establishing a Tribal Business Incubator Is to Accelerate Indian Owned Businesses Growth and Success and Decrease the Likelihood of Failure This in Turn Creates New Sustainable Jobs, Diversifies the Tribe S Business Base, and Enhances the Quality of Life on the Reservation the Tribal Business Incubator Aspires to 1 Advance the Tribe S Goal of Increasing Reservation Middle Wage Jobs Through Economic Growth, 2 Help Advance the Tribe S Objective of Promoting Native Owned Small Business Growth and Workforce Development in the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation Community So That After Graduation They Become Permanent Contributors to the Overall Vitality, Diversity, and Growth of the Tribe S Economy the Quechan Indian Tribe Has a Long History of Entrepreneurship and Innovation From Early Sustainable Flood Irrigation Agriculture Practices That Included Inter Tribal Trading With the Mohave, Hopi, and Apache Nations, and Thriving Traditional Economies in the Time of European Explores First Contact to Today S Vendors, Merchants, and Entrepreneurs Vmes Business Community on the Reservation Business Starting Opportunity Costs Can Be Burdensome for a New Start Up in the Off Reservation Business Community the Aforementioned Tribal History Presents an Opportunity for the Tribe to Capture Native Business Owners Who Want to Live and Work in a Place Where Their Income Goes Further on the Reservation Given This Opportunity and the Tribal Business Incubator S Central Location Within the Reservation, This Is an Ideal Location for a Tribal Business Incubator