Wilmington Green Box Launched!

The energy, ingenuity, and passion of the young people in Wilmington are leading to truly great things!

Jason Aviles and John Naughton have started Wilmington Green Box - a way to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods throughout the city.

And here's some exciting news:

I'll just quote from Jason here:

 ArtPlaceAmerica announced that Wilmington Green Box is one of 80 projects that it will consider for its 2016 National Creative Placemaking Fund!!!! 

These 80 projects are 6% of the 1,361 initial applications that ArtPlace reviewed!

ArtPlace America’s National Creative Placemaking Fund is a highly competitive national program that invests money in communities across the country.

Wilmington Green Box has proposed a project that will bring artist, local farms, healthy food companies, developers, and designers together to creatively build a modern, redesigned structure composed of recycled shipping containers. These containers will be infused with artistic expression and sustainability principals to provide our community with a unique storefront structure that will make fresh produce and healthy goods accessible and affordable. Also, our project will incorporate outdoor functional space that will serve the local community as a creative hub for exposure to the arts, entertainment, culture and building relationships.
 

Keep your eyes open for the Wilmington Green Box and enjoy the great food they're delivering.

Marty

Open Data Hackathon

Our friends at Open Data Delaware just held a full day Hackathon at 1313 Innovation. Here's Ryan Harrington and David Ginzberg to explain:

I am so appreciative of all from the community who came out to spend a day exploring ways to better connect our businesses, residents, and visitors in the state.

For more information on Open Data Delaware, click here.

Marty

Celebrating 10 years at D'Ambiance Barber Salon

DaShawn McManus has always had a passion for cutting hair and providing great service.

In June of 2006, he opened D'Ambiance Barber Salon on 9th Street in Downtown Wilmington. This month, he and his team are celebrating 10 years of business.

All of us at Downtown Visions are proud of the great work done by DaShawn and his team, congratulate the whole team on ten years of awesome service, and look forward to more success in the future.

Click Here to learn more about D'Ambiance.

Marty

Downtown Wilmington in 6 minutes

Our friends at WITN, channel 22, have just produced an excellent overview of our Downtown Wilmington.

I appreciate the work Sheila Friedman and her team has done to showcase our incredible community.

Take a look at the video here:

You might want to take a look at all that WITN produces by clicking here.

We have a collection of great entrepreneurs, artists, educators, entertainers, residents, business leaders, non-profits, students, and more in our Downtown Wilmington - I hope you'll take time to explore all of these aspects of our community.

Marty

Growing employment opportunities

Our friends at Wilmington Rotary and TEDx Wilmington are teaming up to present a program about expanding employment opportunities in our city.

Fourspeakers will give 4 TEDx talks on Expanding Employment in Wilmington over lunch in the Gold Ballroom of the Hotel du Pont, which is included in the ticket price of $25:

• Bryan Tracy will talk about Sustainable Strategies to Re-employ Delaware’s Human and Financial Capital for the Next Big Industry Success;
• Sebastian Kretschmer will talk about Green Prison Reentry- Growing New Farmers;
• Francisco Castellanos's talk is entitled"Turning Coffee into Code:The art of Stoicism”
• Harold Lathon will talk about Self-Sufficient Economic Empowerment- The Sustainable Alternative to a Career in Illegal Drugs

WHEN: Thursday, July 21, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)

WHERE: Hotel du Pont - 42 West 11th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Click Here for more details and tickets.

I hope you will join me in learning about these exciting ideas.

Marty

P.S. Here's a video invitation from the organizers: