SPECIAL THANKS to the Greater Durham Black Chamber of Commerce, City of Durham, Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, American Underground, iNvictus Group & Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau for helping to orchestrate this experience; and to TranquilPathways Travel (owner Dr. Kentaya Beeler) for prolific in-kind support to this journey.

We are also grateful to Ms. Tasha’s Transit, LLC & Triangle Corp Coach for local transportation during our stay in Durham.

For more information on the One Community Plan Development Project, visit https://onecommunitystpete.com

ST. PETERSBURG LEADERS TOUR ECONOMIC EQUITY INITIATIVES IN DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINAJUNE 21ST THROUGH 23RD 2018 An initiative of The One Community Plan Development Process City of St. Petersburg, Florida

Albert Lee, CEO, Tampa Bay Black Business Investment Corporation, A U.S. Treasury-certified CDFI

Charlotte Anderson, Vice President, Pinellas County Urban League

Gypsy C. Gallardo, CEO, The 2020 Plan & Publisher, the Power

Broker Magazine

Julian Riley, CEO, Citi Refund Tax Division

Nikki Capehart, Urban Affairs Director, City of St. Petersburg

Michael Jalazo, CEO, Pinellas Ex-Offender Re-Entry Coalition (not pictured)

Brodus A. Brown, Owner, Central Station

Barbershop & Grooming 

Deborah Figgs-Sanders, CEO, Personal

Agenda, LLC & 2020 Fund Donor Advisor

Jabaar Edmond, Film Maker/Co-Founder, Sunshine City Film

Festival

Dr. Kentaya Beeler, CEO, The Balanced

Accounting Group & Owner, Tranquilpathways Travel

Rev. Watson Haynes, II, CEO, Pinellas County

Urban League

Annie Tyrell, Owner, Annie’s Beauty Supply, LLC,

a Black Woman Owned Small Business

Dr. Cynthia Johnson, Center Director, FSBDC at Pinellas County Economic

Development

Izabelle B. James, Owner, James Insurance

Solutions (Property & Casualty Agency)

Lynn Johnson, Real Estate Investor

Tiffany Nicole Moore, CEO, Moore Eventful, LLC

Bruce Moore, Community Organizer,

CDAT Center, Inc.

Dick Pierce, Member, ASPEC at Eckerd

College Community Development Group

Dr. Jamelle Conner, Provost, St. Petersburg College Gibbs Campus

Kory Outlaw, CEO, Wolfpack Marketing

Deacon Will Johnson, Owner,

All Photos Considered Photography, LLC

April Harley, Business Partner Relations Manager, Duke Energy &

Licensed Realtor

Canaan McCaslin, Special Assistant to Pinellas

County Administrator

Gale Thomas Philson, Registered Representative at Thomas Tax & Financial

Service

Bro John Muhammad, Lead Organizer,

New Deal for St. Pete

Pastor Louis M. Murphy, Sr., Senior

Pastor, Mt Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church

OURTRAVELERS

THURSDAY, JUNE 21ST 6:15 a.m. Fly out of Tampa International 8:00 a.m. Arrive at Raleigh Durham International 8:30 a.m. Charter shuttle to hotel 8:45 a.m. Arrive Aloft Durham Hotel, with welcome bags by Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau

10:00 a.m. Depart hotel for Stop, Shop & Talk hosted by Ngozi Design Collective Co-Founder Andrea Carter, a collective of 50 artisans, authors & entrepreneurs.

12:00 p.m. Tour of the American Underground

12:30 to 2 p.m. Lunch & Learn with Self-Help Ventures Fund & Self-Help Federal Credit Union, two organizations within a family of member-owned, mission-driven credit unions, a nonprofit loan fund,

and a policy advocacy organization, with 145,000 members across America.

2:05 p.m. Talk & Tour of Black Wall Street and The Parrish Street Project by City of Durham Acting Economic Development Senior Manager Reginald Jones

3:05 p.m. Return to hotel 4:50 p.m. Depart for dinner

5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Networking Dinner at The Palace International Restaurant, a family-owned restaurant (founders Maurice and Caren Ochola)

Special Guests: Former Mayor Bill Bell; Doug Speight (American Underground); Joshua Gunn & Pashara Black (Durham Chamber); Janine Rouson (Senator Darryl Rouson’s sister); members of the Greater Durham Black Chamber; and others.

FRIDAY, JUNE 22ND

8:00 a.m. Depart hotel on Triangle Corp Coach bus; tour guided by C. J. Broderick, President, Greater Durham Black Chamber

• Stop 1: Phoenix Crossing Shopping Center 8:15 a.m. Breakfast at Nzinga Café and talk by owners of 2 retail centers & leaders of development efforts in historic Hayti, Larry & Denise Hester)

The St. Petersburg contingent made every effort to engage black-owned businesses and black-led organizational partners in Durham. Pictured here, an evening of live music at Beyu Caffé (owner Dorian Bolden), where travelers will end-cap the two-day sojourn.

TRAVELERS’ ITINERARY St. Petersburg Leaders Tour Durham

FRIDAY, JUNE 22ND CONT’D

• Driving tour of Hayti homes & neighborhoods

• Stop 2: iNvictus Group Headquarters

10:00 a.m. Tour & Innovation Talk by Ed Boyd, Jr., Chief Strategy Officer, iNvictus Group Holdings

• Driving tour of Northeast Central homes & neighborhoods

• Stop 3: North Carolina Central University 11:15 a.m. Mini-tour & Introduction of Entrepreneurship Lab & other initiatives intro-ed by Henry McKoy & Keisha Williams, School of Business

• Stop 4: Lunch Panel on Black Wall Street

12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Power Lunch Panel: The Decade Ahead in Black Durham (Priorities for Inclusive Growth in the Bull City) at the Historic Parrish Street Forum

2:15 p.m. Return to hotel/rest 5:45 p.m. Depart/walk to Beyu Caffé

SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD 8:30 a.m. Group departs hotel to Airport 10:00 a.m. Group 1 flies out 11:00 a.m. Group 2 flies out

MODERATOR: Ed Boyd, Jr.,

iNvictus Group

TALK: The Institute Strategy by Farad

Ali, CEO, The Institute (N.C. Institute of

Minority Economic Development)

WHY THE CITY-TO-CITY EXCHANGE by St. Petersburg

Urban Affairs Director Nikki Capehart

TALK: Perspectives on Durham’s journey to inclusive

growth by former Mayor Bill Bell (2001 to 2017)

TRIBUTE: Rep. Mickey Michaux, Jr.

PURPOSE OF OUR TOUR by Pastor Louis Murphy, Mt Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist

TALK: The Durham Chain Strategy by Denise Hester, on collective actions,

including Community Benefit Agreements

CHARTER TRANSPORTATION BY MS. TASHA’S TRANSIT, LLC & TRIANGLE CORP COACH

6:00 pm Dinner 7:00 pm Concert by Jazz Musician Mark G. Meadows