The Somerville Chamber of Commerce is the leading group of local businesses and serves as a community for local employers, business owners, and interested parties to come together to discuss and address the future of Somerville’s business community. They are very focused on the idea that Somerville is a diverse community where small businesses can thrive, and when I talked to them they were very eager to show all the areas where this has been proven.
We had a very brief conversation, but a lot of the areas highlighted had to do with how Somerville has been divvied up into “squares” and places like Davis Square, Ball Square, and the new up-and-coming Magoun Square are highlighted as hubs of the small business community.
The chamber is a member driven and funded organization that takes voluntary dues to pay for its endeavors. Since there are hundreds of members, that really is the strength of the organization.
That's interesting about how communities are divided up bc of the "squares." When I interviewed someone last week, they said something to the same effect except they were saying that they think communities might be divided by the new Green Line that's supposed to be built through Medford/Somerville. She said that it may divide the "rich" and the "poor."
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