North Park Main Street is
partially funded by the City of
San Diego Redevelopment Agency and the City of San Diego Small Business Enhancement Program 

• Business Recruitment: Providing direction on the mix of business types in recruiting new businesses to downtown North Park.  Encouraging the arrival of businesses that would make North Park's Arts, Culture, and Entertainment district more vital.  And the retention of essential neighborhood services such as banks, hardware stores, etc.

• Business Assistance: Developing assistance to businesses to improve business planning, efficiency, marketing, and promotion.  One project of the Committee was Business Fundamentals.  This was a program where a consultant worked with two businesses in the district to assist them in the streamlining and marketing of their businesses.  The Economic Restructuring Committee is also working to coordinate business assistance workshops with other neighborhoods and The Small Business Development & International Trade Center.

• City of Villages: Assisting in business-developing aspects of the City of Villages strategy.  New projects under the North Park Pilot Village should speed the introduction of new residential customers with more money to spend, and new storefront spaces.  The Committee will help fill these spaces with exciting businesses that will add to the life of downtown North Park.

• Permit Streamlining: The Economic Restructuring Committee is always working with businesses and City departments to streamline and reduce the costs of obtaining required city permits.  Last year the Committee challenged the City's Development Services Department.  In response to North Park Main Street's protests of Development Services the department has begun to improve their assistance to small business.