I did a Meet & Greet yesterday with David Lindahl, the City’s Economic Development Manager, and two members of our City Council, Sherry Butcher and Phil Young. We met with officials from Foster Klima & Company. This is the 94th local business that we’ve visited on our Business Meet & Greet tour. We are closing in on #100. We are looking for that one sometime in early September.
We met with Doug Flink and Lee Ann Youngquist from the company. As we do at all of our meet & greets, we really start with an open agenda and let the company pace the meeting as they see fit. Generally, we talk about why they are in Eden Prairie; if their business is growing or not; their general observations about the community; and end up on what, if any, experiences they’ve had with City government. Like almost all of our previous meetings, this one went quite well. They like it here. Experience with the City has been limited, but generally good. They plan to grow here too.
Lee Ann Youngquist talked to us about a program that she is involved in at Foster Klima, through its affiliation with Guardian Life Insurance Company, called Girls Going Places.
The program seeks to provide more development opportunities for girls to learn about business and entrepreneurship. Lee Ann is business making connections in the Twin Cities, and especially in Eden Prairie, with female business leaders to try and successfully launch the program in the Twin Cities. If you are interested in the program or want to help out, please contact Lee Ann at Foster Klima. I’m sure she’d welcome your interest.
I wish her the best. Girls Going Places. Sounds like a very worthwhile endeavor, indeed.
