Local Black-owned businesses are hoping to get their fair share of city-awarded contracts amid the boom of development projects in Jacksonville.
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Officials couldn’t give the total number of Black-owned businesses in Jacksonville, but they said it’s growing and the event will help further that growth. Yara Banks, chief operating officer of the JBCC, said they want people to join for their future and not the JBCC’s. A city council working group was supposed to be looking at how to get small businesses, not just minority-owned companies, involved with city contracts. They met every other week, but it was never communicated that the meeting was canceled.
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