Rockwall, TX (Might 16, 2025) – In Might, as we have fun Nationwide Small Enterprise Week, it’s tempting to supply solely applause and cheer. Sure, our small companies are resilient, artistic, and beneficiant. They’re the lifeblood of the Rockwall space and numerous cities throughout America. But when we cease at feel-good slogans, we do them—and ourselves—a disservice.
Let’s be sincere: proudly owning a small enterprise in right now’s atmosphere isn’t just difficult. It’s usually exhausting tough, and generally even demoralizing. In our neighborhood, our enhancing infrastructure is making it laborious for a few of our 1-30 hall companies to stay simple to entry. I need to remind everybody; they’re OPEN for enterprise. Please make the additional flip or drive a little bit farther to get into their parking tons throughout this time. We need to be certain that they’re right here lengthy after our roads are improved.
These small companies are greater than storefronts or service suppliers. They’re job creators, neighborhood builders, and passionate innovators. Whether or not it’s the family-owned restaurant that is aware of your order by coronary heart, the boutique that provides one-of-a-kind treasures, or the contractor who constructed your neighbor’s dream kitchen, small companies form the character and high quality of life in our neighborhood.
So, as we have fun our small companies, let’s transcend the balloons and ribbon-cuttings. Let’s have actual conversations about how we as a neighborhood—and as a rustic—could make entrepreneurship extra viable and sustainable.
It’s not sufficient to say “store native”, we have to create an atmosphere the place small companies can’t solely survive, however actually thrive—three hundred and sixty five days a 12 months. Thanks, Rockwall, for actually supporting our native small companies.
Behind each enterprise is a narrative of laborious work, resilience, and risk-taking. Entrepreneurs face numerous challenges—financial shifts, staffing hurdles, regulatory modifications—but they persevere. They make investments not simply their cash, however their time, vitality, and coronary heart into making their companies thrive and enrich our neighborhood.
Small Enterprise Week isn’t just about celebration; it’s about assist. This week, and each week, I encourage all of our residents to assume native first. Each greenback spent at a small enterprise stays in our neighborhood longer, supporting not simply the enterprise itself, however workers, native suppliers, and the numerous organizations and occasions that small companies generously sponsor 12 months after 12 months.
On the Rockwall Space Chamber of Commerce, we’re proud to face beside these entrepreneurs, advocating for his or her wants, offering sources, and fostering a supportive enterprise atmosphere the place they’ll succeed.
To our small enterprise house owners: your persistence fuels our financial system and strengthens our neighborhood. You’re taking dangers others shrink back from. You imagine in your concepts, your staff, and your neighborhood. That issues. We see you, we thanks, and we’re dedicated to advocating for you not only for Small Enterprise Week, however each week.
Please be part of us as we cheer on and assist our small companies even past Small Enterprise Week. Your assist issues and they’re OPEN for enterprise to serve all of us!
Darby Nielsen, IOM, Rockwall Space Chamber of Commerce President & CEO
