Administrator to meet Governor Polis and Mayors from Denver and Aurora
On Thursday, May 2, Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s more than 33 million small businesses, will travel to Colorado for a stop on the SBA’s 2024 National Small Business Week (NSBW) roadshow.
In the morning, Administrator Guzman will join Denver Mayor Mike Johnston in visiting three locally owned small businesses on the city’s 16th Street Mall as part of Denver’s Come Back to Main Street initiative – including a long- standing entertainment venue that relied on SBA resources to grow and survive the pandemic, as well as a restaurant that started as part of the Small Business Boom under the Biden-Harris Administration, which has seen 393,000 new business applications in Colorado alone.
The Administrator will then visit a local small business incubator to meet with four tenants who have started up under the Biden-Harris Administration’s Small Business Boom. Afterward, Administrator Guzman will serve as the keynote speaker for Colorado’s National Small Business Week award ceremony hosted at the incubator, where she will meet with SBA Colorado’s local winners and two national winners from Colorado as well as participate in an alumni showcase for the SBA’s T.H.R.I.V.E. training program. Administrator Guzman will be available to speak to the press afterward to those who RSVP to rebecca.galanti@sba.gov.
The Administrator will then travel to Aurora with Governor Jared Polis and Mayor Mike Coffman to tour a local marketplace and visit with four small businesses, including new small businesses formed under the Biden-Harris Administration, minority- and women-owned small businesses, and businesses who have relied on SBA resources to grow. She will be joined by representatives of the Aurora- South Metro Small Business Development Center (SBDC), recipient of the National SBDC Excellence and Innovation Award.
As Colorado leads the nation in new business application growth rates, diverse entrepreneurs in Colorado are thriving under the Biden-Harris Administration – building and leaning on their networks to lift one another up. This National Small Business Week, the SBA is highlighting the power of building a strong entrepreneurial network and encourages Coloradans and all Americans to support their local economies and Come Back to Main Street.
