Funders to approach for Eighteenth Street Development Corp

Commercial support services (css)- Eighteenth Street Development corporation (esdc) assists area businesses to resolve zoning, licensing, and other issues which require interface with local or city government offices. Esdc works with a variety of public and private officials to plan the location and scope of city of Chicago and cook county improvement projects to ensure that neighborhood needs are addressed. Esdc seeks to promote area businesses by publishing an annual business directory and also producing a variety of events during the year. These include mole de mayo in the month of may and buen provecho pilsen in september. Local industrial retention initiative (liri)- by working with over 200 hundred small, medium and large scale businesses in pilsen's industrial corridor, the industrial development division of esdc assists in the growth and development of industrial businesses to expand employment opportunities in the community. The pilsen industrial corridor (pmd 11) covers 907…