Economic Development e-Newsletter

September 2022


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Upcoming Events

The following events are hosted by the Orange County / Inland Empire

Small Business Development Center (SBDC).

Get Ready to Grow 


Are you ready to grow your business? Over a four-week period, learn how to identify when you are poised to expand and put together a growth plan.


This series helps you evaluate your business and put together a plan to take it to the next level. 


The series takes place virtually from 12 to 1 p.m. starting September 7.

For more information and to register for this event, click here.

Next Generation Retail Program


Next Generation Retail is a program offered to assist brick-and-mortar retailers in breaking through challenges and focusing on growth opportunities.


The four-week program is from 9 to 11 a.m. starting September 15.

Its goal is to aid retailers in assessing their growth, identifying new technologies for their business, and learning best practices to decrease cost and increase revenue.


For more information and to register for this event, click here.

Leasing 101 Webinar


Experts will discuss in detail the leasing process, including how to use a broker and site selection, during the webinar from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on September 28.


In addition, the webinar will cover several other topics, including types of leases, letters of intent, lease negotiations, funding evaluations, and more.

For more information and to register for this event, click here.

Business Resources

America’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is the most comprehensive small business assistance network in the United States.


Small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs can go to their local SBDC for business consulting, training, and online courses at no cost. 





America's SBDC

SCORE, is the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors.


The organization is dedicated to helping small businesses grow and achieve their goals through the provision of a wide range of services.


Services include free or low-cost mentoring, webinars, online resources, workshops, roundtables, and other events. 

SCORE

Business Watch is a free crime prevention program that enlists the active participation of business owners in cooperation with law enforcement to prevent crime in their community.


By cooperating with each other and the police, people can help fight crime in their community in the most effective way - before it begins!




Business Watch

August Recap

Pho So 1 Ribbon Cutting


The City of Lake Forest and Chamber of Commerce held a Ribbon Cutting for Pho So 1's grand opening in Lake Forest on August 19. 


To support Lake Forest local businesses, visit them at 21771 Lake Forest Dr., #114 Lake Forest. 

National Night Out 


The City of Lake Forest, in partnership with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD), hosted National Night Out on August 2, at the Lake Forest Sports Park & Recreation Center, to strengthen police-community partnerships and celebrate America’s night out against crime.


The event featured K9 demonstrations, mounted equestrian units, SWAT, a Harbor Patrol boat, the bomb squad, and an OCFA fire truck.

Lake Forest businesses supported the event as vendors, offering free swag and food to attendees.

3rd Place Coffee Ribbon Cutting


3rd Place Coffee came to Lake Forest this month! The City of Lake Forest and Chamber of Commerce celebrated their grand opening with a Ribbon Cutting on August 5. 


To support Lake Forest local businesses, visit them at 26741 Portola Pkwy #1-A, Foothill Ranch.

Business Spotlight

Marque Urgent Care is a locally owned and operated business in Lake Forest. Its mission is to provide the community with direct access to top-quality, customer-focused healthcare that is convenient, consistent, and efficient. It employs staff and medical providers that live in and around the Lake Forest area and have a passion for helping people in their time of need, while providing the comfort of a familiar face.

 

Its first urgent care clinic opened in 2010 in Newport Beach, CA. Marque Urgent Care now has 12 urgent care clinics in Southern California, including nearby cities such as Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, and Rancho Santa Margarita. The next step in its vision of expansion is to become the region’s most loved, first-choice for on-demand healthcare. 

Marque Urgent Care’s medical staff are multi-specialty providers, meaning most staff members come from all types of medical backgrounds. Because of its diverse staff, it offers family medicine, internal medicine, cardiologists, surgeons, and pediatricians on-hand. This also allows Marque Urgent Care to provide a variety of top-quality healthcare services. For instance, it offers immediate walk-in care for most non-emergency ailments. 

It also provides expert care for coughs, colds, flu symptoms, earaches, sore or strep throats, rashes, upset stomach, sprains and strains, x-rays, lab work, EKGs, and much more.

 

Marque Urgent Care makes it easy for patients to access all types of healthcare right in their neighborhood. If a patient comes in with a medical need or question, and the current on-site provider wants either a second opinion or answer, they always have access to a specialty provider if needed at the time of service.

 

Marque Urgent Care combines its community roots with more than 100 years of combined experience by state licensed and board-certified medical providers. That’s why its been voted the urgent care center of choice by the community members year after year. Marque offers an unparalleled healthcare experience provided by an award-winning team and invites you to make them your healthcare center of choice. When it comes to medical care, whether it be routine or urgent, you want the comfort of a familiar face, greeted with a warm smile and the convenience of being seen the same day, after hours, or weekends.

Marque Urgent Care Special Promotions

Free B12 shot when you get your annual physical ($45 value)!

September is National Preparedness Month! $5 off first aid-kits, perfect for the home or car. Only $24.99

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Business in the News

Lake Forest Welcomes Lucid Diagnostics Inc. Test Center!


Lucid Diagnostics Inc. has chosen Lake Forest as the home of its new test center. The new test center is part of the second stage of Lucid’s Test Center program, which aims to grow and expand the organization into new metropolitan areas.

Lucid Diagnostics Inc.  is a commercial-stage, cancer prevention medical diagnostics company, and subsidiary of PAVmed Inc. 

Lucid is focused on the millions of patients with gastroesophageal disease (GERD), also known as chronic heartburn, who are at risk of developing esophageal precancer and cancer.


The test centers are staffed with Lucid-employed nurse practitioners who use EsoCheck to conduct a brief and non-invasive collection of surface esophageal cells from patients with GERD. These tests are sent to LucidDx Labs for EsoGuard testing and detect esophageal precancer before it progresses to deadly esophageal cancer.


Lucid estimates that a single nurse practitioner can perform up to twenty EsoCheck procedures per day. Lucid believes EsoGuard is the first and only commercially available test capable of serving as a widespread tool to prevent esophageal cancer deaths, through early precancer detection in at-risk GERD patients.


To read more, click here.


Available Commercial Space

Are you a Lake Forest commercial broker or property manager and have office, industrial, or retail space to advertise?


Submit a request to Economic Development staff to feature your listing on our newsletter, social media, and website today!

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