{"id":95394,"date":"2019-02-27T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-surveying-local-businesses-beginning-in-march\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:18:10","slug":"mancos-surveying-local-businesses-beginning-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-surveying-local-businesses-beginning-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos surveying local businesses beginning in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=df8323cf-7c53-41f8-8d02-4a464c011580&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=df8323cf-7c53-41f8-8d02-4a464c011580&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=df8323cf-7c53-41f8-8d02-4a464c011580&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=df8323cf-7c53-41f8-8d02-4a464c011580&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1333\" height=\"889\" alt=\"The town of Mancos will conduct a survey of local business owners next week as part of a larger plan to spur economic growth in the community.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The town of Mancos will conduct a survey of local business owners next week as part of a larger plan to spur economic growth in the community.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Erika Alvero\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The town of Mancos will be surveying local businesses next week as part of a larger plan to spur economic growth in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos was recently awarded a state grant for the overarching economic growth project, and they have hired the Durango-based firm RPI Consulting to conduct the upcoming survey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of the business survey will be used to identify opportunities, challenges and priorities, and develop well-grounded strategies for growth and diversification,\u201d Town Administrator Heather Alvarez said.<\/p>\n<p>The larger Mancos business development and economic growth strategy will also include an asset inventory, business inventory, market assessment and strategic plan, according to Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>The overall project will cost a total of $31,000, with $22,500 coming from the Department of Local Affairs Rural Economic Development Incentive program, which provided the state grant, Alvarez said. Mancos will be paying for the $8,500 difference.<\/p>\n<p>The entire project is expected to finish up by June 30 of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The consultants will be collecting surveys in person from March 6 through March 8. Prior to this, RPI staff will be calling business owners and managers to schedule a time to take the survey.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, to receive an emailed survey copy, or to set an appointment, business owners can contact Iris Nott, the fieldwork coordinator at RPI Consulting, at <a href=\"mailto:iris@rpiconsulting.org\">iris@rpiconsulting.org<\/a> or 379-6553.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of larger economic growth plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[782,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-95394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-governmental-entities","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95394"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=95394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}