Mark Brand on Forging Pathway with Instincts and Executing of ...

You asked. We delivered.?Food Business Interviews?Presents?-?The Save on Meats Community Revival -

As the pink neon flying pigs has soar overhead, the down town meat counter serves, everyone, daily by it?s successor, Mark Brand, with a master plan to rekindle the vision for a community-focused business with a heart beating pulse. ?Click Here to Tweet

In this episode of?Food Business Interviews, our guest is a Restauranteur, Entrepreneur and Founder of Mark Brand Inc who?s going to teach you how to Build a Community with Strategic Partnerships.?Mark Brand has had his eye one of the cities most traditionally, lets just say?, underdog neighbour, packing a perspective of insight and wisdom to see big potential. The opportunity to help shape and reviving a dive area into a burgeoning community with super cool food houses, community efforts, shops and galleries.

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When the population turned their back, to a zone that was most often associated with serious socio-economic issues, ?a visionary leader entrepreneur named Mark Brand saw something else in a neighbourhood he began to love and saw worth saving. He is walking his talk and putting his passion on the line, with his heart, capital, time, ?and energy enough to motivate others to get on board to take action alongside him ?as chronicled in a doc-project called ?Gastown Gamble? to air on Wednesdays on OWN Canada.

Mark?is a proud partner and collaborator of the Vancouver hotspots, Boneta, The Diamond, Sea Monster Sushi,?Sharks & Hammers,?Catalog Gallery, and the community hub Save on Meats.?With Mark?s efforts, he has been able to build his own Brand, along with community outreach collaborators who are essentially helping to transform a neighbourhood and getting it back on is path.

Well, the dinner bell has rung, and is committed to a 20 year lease on an entire four-storey building, with reno?s are long completed and all systems running optimally. Main floor Butcher Shop, check. Restaurant and take-out window, check, check. 2nd floor Commissary kitchen for partner projects: The Diamond, Sea Monstr Sushi and Boneta, check, check, and, check. Upper floors Office and ?Incubator? Kitchen for entrepreneurs develop new food products and learn business skills?.deep breath, check. Ok, you get the picture, this guy is fully engaged, committed to community, and minding his business.

Enjoy this interview with the Inspirational Mark Brand and get on board with his cause if you like what he is doing.

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Top Take Aways from Interview

Mark Brand ? Inc.

• Always partner with people that are better at your job than you are and can cover your shortfalls.
• If you can see the talent in people, and that the drive and commitment is there, get behind them with your skill sets and it will work.
• Stay true to your mandate and your vision ? which means, you also need to take the time to define yours

The Save On Meats Community ? Revisited

• Goal: Revive a community hub to be affordable and approachable to everyone, serving the existing residents as opposed to alienating them as gentrification has done to much of the area.
• Objectives: Assist with Job Creation and provide channels for sustainable employment for people with barriers to help ensure food security.
• Be the bridge in the conversation, work together with not-for-profits as a unified front.
• Your business needs to stay relevant to the community.
• Build enterprise that is social versus the other way around

Advice

• Follow what you know and love.
• The era of playing ?high-profile? is fading.
• Create a safe place that allows for diversity.
• All different walks of life and types of people in your community have valuable input into the conversation and the outcome of your business.
• Be bold and put everything on the line, you have to take those risks, jump off the proverbial ledges and not be afraid of what?s going to happen next.
• Forge your own path, follow your instincts, and work with your people and trust them and everything will work itself out.

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