National SBDC Day celebrated at Salt City Coffee in Syracuse

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The owners of Salt City Coffee at 509 W. Onondaga St. in Syracuse marked their second anniversary in business and celebrated National SBDC Day at the same time.

SBDC Day is a “national, collective proclamation of the success and impact America’s Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) have across the nation” in economic development and the small businesses community, per a Tuesday news release from the Syracuse district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

Salt City Coffee owners Aaron and Maria Metthe opened the business in March 2017 with the help of business counseling from the SBDC at Onondaga Community College (OCC), the SBA said.

The center helped the Metthes to develop their business plan and financial projections, identify funding options, and obtain marketing data provided by the SBDC research library.

Aaron Metthe also took the Fast Track to Business Start Up class presented by the SBDC, a 20-hour workshop on “all facets” of launching a business.

In honor of National SBDC Day, the SBA, SBDC at OCC, and OCC held a Wednesday morning event at Salt City Coffee to acknowledge Salt City Coffee’s two years in business.

The SBA annually provides more than $6 million to the State University of New York network of 22 SBDCs across the state, the agency said.

For more than 30 years, the SBA Syracuse district office has partnered with the SBDC at OCC to help the small-business community in the Central New York.

Since 1984, the advisors of OCC’s SBDC have worked directly with 8,023 clients, helping them to invest more than $209 million in the area economy, and create or save 11,318 jobs, per the SBA news release.

OCC’s SBDC has satellite locations at the Tech Garden in Syracuse and at Syracuse CoWorks, along with locations in Cortland, Cayuga, Madison, and Seneca counties, the agency added.

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