The City of Newark and the the African-American Chamber of Commerce of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, co-sponsored a Newark Forward business conference Thursday at New Jersey Institute of Technology.Newark officials and the African-American Chamber of Commerce of Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Delaware on Thursday told entrepreneurs of color that New Jersey’s largest city is also one of its best places to do business and invited them to start or move their enterprises there.
Materials provided at the complex noted that Newark lies midway along the metropolitan corridor from Boston to Washington, D.C., a marketplace of 56 million residents and $3.75 trillion in economic output. With Newark located just 12 miles west of Manhattan and linked by road and rail lines, Baraka said, “We have an opportunity here with Newark to put you in the largest media market in the world.
“One thing that I think Black chambers understand, I think you folks will understand that a lot of people don’t understand, is that this next generation of young people that are coming up, they’re tired of the old way,” Baraka said. Baraka, who is weighing a bid for governor in 2025, clearly impressed a trio of women business owners of color seated at a table near the stage.