Build Bold · Economic Development
Implementation Capacity for Business-Facing Programs.
Programs are rarely limited by strategy. They are limited by delivery, someone to reach the businesses, assess them honestly, help them get ready, and document what happened. That is the work Premier 72 does.
The Delivery Model
How Implementation Actually Runs
Eight stages, in order. Engagements are scoped to the program, not every stage is needed every time.
Outreach
Reaching business owners along a corridor or within a district, in person, not only by email list.
Business Intake
A consistent intake process that captures the information a program needs in order to act.
Readiness Assessment
A structured look at where each business stands operationally and financially.
Technical Assistance
Hands-on support with records, reporting, documentation, and operational basics.
Financial, Capital & Grant Readiness
Getting financials to the standard a lender, funder, or reviewer expects, and assembling what an application requires.
Project Implementation Coordination
Keeping the moving parts of a corridor or district project on schedule and accounted for.
Business-Owner Support
A single point of contact owners will actually call back, throughout the engagement.
Measurement & Reporting
Documentation your board, funders, and stakeholders can rely on.
This is implementation capacity, the delivery work itself, not advice handed over for someone else to carry out.
Alongside the Sequence
Supporting Capabilities
Organizational & Corridor Implementation
Coordinated support across a corridor or district initiative where several stages run at once.
Business Readiness Advisory
The underlying Build Bold work, financial management, profitability, and operational readiness.
Program Design Support
Helping shape how a business-facing program will actually reach and serve its population.
Engaging Premier 72
How an Engagement Comes Together
Every engagement is scoped to the program in front of us, so scope and structure are agreed before any work begins.
Discovery
We learn the organization, the program, the businesses being served, the objectives, and the constraints that are already known.
Scope Definition
Together we define the population, the services, who is responsible for what, the deliverables, and the reporting the program requires.
Program & Implementation Design
We build the outreach, intake, readiness, technical-assistance, and implementation structure the agreed scope calls for.
Execution
Premier 72 performs the implementation work that was agreed, on the ground, with the businesses.
Reporting & Measurement
Activity, progress, barriers encountered, outcomes, and recommended next actions, documented for your stakeholders.
Who We Work With
- Economic development organizations
- Community development organizations
- Chambers of commerce
- Municipalities and public agencies
- Foundations and philanthropic funders
- Corridor and district organizations
Corridor Work In Practice
95th Street Corridor Business Readiness Initiative
Premier 72 has worked with the Endeleo Institute to support business-readiness and implementation activities connected to Chicago's 95th Street commercial corridor, outreach, intake, readiness assessment, technical assistance, application support, and the back-office infrastructure behind it. An active, developing initiative.
View the Developing Case StudyLet's Talk About Your Program
A structured conversation about scope, responsibilities, reporting, and what delivery would realistically require.