January Meeting

Presentation by Karen Lundquist of Lunquist & Lange, Attorney’s at Law, about Depression in the Workplace.
It is that time of year: daylight is short, the cold is isolating and people are feeling down. The winter blues (and year round blues, for that matter) affect your employees and can have serious implications for your business.
Karen Lundquist [...]

Memorial Fund

Seward Redesign and the Seward Neighborhood Group have established a memorial fund for the immediate family of the three individuals killed at the Seward Market on January 6, 2010.
You may contribute to the fund in the following ways:
1. Drop off donations in collection jars at local businesses.
2. Drop off donations at Redesign’s office (2619 E. [...]

Birchwood Composts Almost Everything

SCCA member Birchwood Cafe is participating in a compost pilot program along with four other Minneapolis restaurants.  They’re able to compost 90 percent of their kitchen waste.  Read more in the Daily Planet article.

Himalayan Restaurant

Naveen Shrestha opened Himalayan Restaurant just over one year ago. At the restaurant he serves traditional Nepalese food with beer and wine. For those of you who are rusty on geography, Nepal sits atop the Himalayan mountain range between India and Tibet. The food is quite similar to what you would expect from an Indian [...]

Seward Market

Seward Market is one of four general grocery stores along the Avenue specializing in products for East African cuisine. For five years, Seward Market has been providing meat, injera and general grocery items to the community. The store is constantly stocked with a diverse selection of inventory to meet everyone’s needs. And it seems that [...]

Jennifer Larson Communications Design

Jenny Larson runs her own home-based graphic design business called Jennifer Larson Communications Design. She started her career, though, as an editor for a local Minnesota publishing firm that printed children’s books. Besides editing the content, her work also consisted of making decisions about where to put the text, the graphics and which graphics to [...]

Safe Shoes for All!

Fast & Furless Vegan Emporium / Animal Rights Coalition
by Megan Sheridan
As many of you reading this may know, a business idea is almost exclusively born out of our own experience. The entrepreneurs among us are keen to noticing when our needs aren’t met or desires go unsatisfied. For Jon Novick, owner of Fast and Furless [...]

We joined SCCA to learn from and work with other successful businesses in the Seward Neighborhood. It’s great to be with folks who are facing similar challenges and want to make our community better. Seward has a rich history of providing a positive business environment for a wide range of enterprises. —Jim Welna, Welna II Hardware