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[July 23, 2021]

MetroNet today celebrated the grand opening of the Rochester store as the company is busy connecting homes and businesses across the community. The Rochester storefront is located at 2109 Broadway Avenue South Rochester, MN 55904, and is only a few steps away from other local businesses like John Hardy’s BBQ and Rochester Record. The storefront will allow customers to learn more about 100% fiber optic connections to their home or business with incredible bandwidth, allowing for faster internet speeds and connect with customer service agents directly as MetroNet continues to make progress through the fully-funded $21.5 million build.

“As MetroNet continues to build their 100% fiber optic network, we have already seen their impact on the Rochester community through innovative solutions that help attract new businesses, support existing business and benefit to local residents,” said Mayor Kim Norton. “Their multi-million-dollar investment in our community illustrates their belief in their fiber infrastructure and in Rochester. I’m proud to celebrate with them as they reach this next milestone.”

The Evansville, IN.-based company began constructing its state-of-the-art fiber network in Rochester in 2019. MetroNet directly connects homes and businesses to high-speed, symmetrical internet that allows users to upload as quickly as they download over fiber optic strands. Customers can learn more about MetroNet and sign up for MetroNet services at MetroNetInc.com.

“We are thrilled to announce the official grand opening of MetroNet in Rochester and to provide residents and businesses with high-speed fiber optic internet,” said MetroNet Director of Business Development/Government Relations Kathy Scheller. “The Rochester community has been incredible to work alongside since we began conversations in 2019. We are excited to provide the Rochester community with service options that will support continued economic development.”

MetroNet provides cities like Rochester with a future-proofed fiber optic network that allows businesses and residents to have access to the fastest internet speeds available in a time when access to reliable internet is a necessity. With MetroNet’s symmetrical speeds to and from the home or business, customers can conveniently stream, work and learn from home.

About MetroNet:

MetroNet is a 100 percent fiber optic company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana. The customer-focused company provides cutting-edge fiber optic communication services, including high-speed Fiber Internet, full-featured Fiber Phone, and Fiber IPTV (News – Alert) with a wide variety of programming. MetroNet started in 2005 with one fiber optic network in Greencastle, Indiana, and has since grown to serving and constructing networks in more than 100 communities across Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Texas. MetroNet is committed to bringing state-of-the-art telecommunication services to communities – services that are comparable or superior to those offered in large metropolitan areas. MetroNet has been named in the top 50 small and medium companies on Glassdoor and has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award recognizing MetroNet among the Best Places to Work in 2020. MetroNet has been recognized by PC Mag as one of the Top 10 Fastest ISPs in North Central United States in 2020 and Top 10 ISPs with Best Gaming Quality Index in 2021. Broadband Now has recognized MetroNet as the Top 3 Fastest Internet Providers and Fastest Fiber Providers in the Nation in 2020, and #1 Fastest Mid-Sized Internet Provider in two states in 2020. In 2020, MetroNet was awarded the Vectren Energy Safe Digging Partner Award from Vectren. For more information, visit www.MetroNetinc.com.

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Big Appetites: The Battle for the Basket  

Even as economies open up and the vaccine programme allows the return of our daily routines, many habits have been reset — and buying groceries online will increasingly become the new normal for many across demographics. Edible grocery sales will add US $653.6 billion to chain retail sales in the next five years with e-commerce representing most of that growth — 10.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2020 and 2025 compared to 3.7% store-based CAGR over the same period.     

That means grocery — a historically rather dull and overlooked sector — is suddenly the flavor of the month. It is whetting the appetite of a range of ambitious new businesses, while pushing traditional retailers, like Walmart, Kroger, Carrefour and Ahold Delhaize, which recently completed its purchase of New York City pureplay digital grocer FreshDirect, to invest heavily in e-commerce capabilities. 

The battle lines have been drawn and the prize is the hearts and stomachs of the future supermarket shopper. 

Meanwhile, food service intermediaries will increasingly leverage their last-mile logistics infrastructure to grow market share in the category, gradually expanding their digital shelf capability and introducing opportunities for brands to advertise and drive conversion. 

In other words, they will strive to be more like Amazon, offering advanced product content, more competitive search, better product management systems for sellers, and strategic partnership opportunities like new product launches and delivery campaigns. Transformation to data-driven ecosystems will split the winners from the losers as large firms utilize loyalty schemes to harvest customer data and adapt strategies closely tailored to audience needs. 

For suppliers, this new age of grocery means reconsidering long-held business and investment strategies to win visibility as e-commerce adoption finally disrupts one of the last bastions of pre-internet life — the weekly grocery shop. 

Product ranges must adapt to reflect the requirements of increasingly health-conscious consumers who are spending more time at home while high-quality mobile-centric imagery and clear product descriptions and pricing is critical to stand out on a digital shelf.   

Retailers, meanwhile, will be paying close attention to Amazon’s push onto the high street and the customer-centric technology innovation the e-commerce giant is bringing to bricks-and-mortar stores. In June, Amazon debuted its first full-size supermarket utilizing its trailblazing Just Walk Out (JWO) technology. In this store, located not far from Amazon headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., customers can skip the checkout line if they choose the JWO option upon entry. Amazon has made this possible with a combination of computer vision, sensors and deep learning functionality. It is a pretty dramatic enhancement in its JWO technology, which was previously only used in its urban-based Fresh convenience stores through its hi-tech carts. 

This not only offers grocery shoppers the opportunity to minimize contact while shopping — desirable during a pandemic and even once it fades — but extra convenience too. It will be interesting to see how many major grocery retailers end up rolling out Amazon’s technology in their own stores.  

So, grocery retail is entering a new era, shoved into submission by the pandemic but shaped by Amazon, which is primed to benefit. The company’s persistent experimentation in the quest to provide consumers with novel, dynamic and convenient shopping solutions is having big ramifications on a sector that has been a sleeping giant for at least 50 years. What can we look forward to over the next 50 years? An Amazon Fresh on the moon? Whatever happens, if humans still exist and are buying groceries, you can bet that the way they do it will have something to do with Amazon. 

Enterprise Community Partners has closed its second affordable housing fund this year at nearly $236 million. The Enterprise Housing Partners Fund XXXV (EHP 35) launched in March and saw commitments from 10 investors. 

The low-income housing tax credit fund will be used to create or preserve 2,529 affordable homes across 19 properties in 14 states. The properties or projects are located in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin.

In November, Enterprise also provided a $10 million grant for a project converting a hotel into a 491-unit community of affordable and supportive housing.

As for EHP 35’s communities, Scott Hoekman, president of Enterprise’s housing credit investments business, told Multi-Housing News that many of the 19 properties are new constructions that are currently being built.

“Enterprise’s national team of originators engages with new and existing affordable housing developers on a regular basis,” Hoekman told MHN about how the company identified these projects. “Enterprise partners with nonprofit and for-profit developers to cultivate deals that deliver maximum community impact while meeting investors’ criteria.”

In Missoula, Mont., Enterprise and its EHP 35 fund will provide financing to Villagio, a 200-unit community being developed by Blue Line in collaboration with the Missoula Housing Authority. The community will offer two- through four-bedroom units reserved for those making between 30 and 60 percent AMI. Villagio is expected to complete construction in spring 2023.

Enterprise also identified 11010 SMB, a five-story modular building in Los Angeles, for the EHP 35 fund. The community will offer 50 studio apartments for homeless seniors who are at least 62 years old, 28 of which will be reserved for veterans.

The community is being developed by The Weingart Center Association, who will also provide onsite social services to tenants, alongside co-developer and co-sponsor Valued Housing II. Half of the community’s units will be subsidized through Section 8 vouchers and the other half through Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing. The community, which is aiming for LEED Gold certification, is expected to be completed in fall of 2022.

FOUR FUNDS FOR 2021

EHP 35 is Enterprise’s second multi-investor housing credit fund that launched in 2021. The company is also planning to close on two other similar funds this year.

The first of Enterprise’s 2021 funds, EHP 34, raised nearly $200 million from seven investors and will be used to create 1,794 affordable homes through 14 properties across 10 states. EHP 34 closed in February and saw investors that included major national and regional banks, most of which are repeat investors, according to Enterprise.

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With the firm belief that the best things to put in and on your body are acquired from nature, Esker is a brand that creates products using clean essential oils that are powerful and effective, but importantly, safe and nourishing for the skin.

Their premium bath salts are packaged in a zero-waste container made from glass and a seagrass carafe jar. Once you finish the contents of your jar, you can simply refill it with the contents of the plastic-free and compostable bag. Designed by Esker’s Creative Director, Greg Foley, it’s clear that the brand’s standards are high for the products and the packaging. As a result, consumers are given the gift of sustainable and aesthetically pleasing products—a win-win situation.

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The Carbon Sink Demonstration Farm located in San Diego County is working to model how small farmers can implement and benefit from carbon farming practices.

The 87-acre Carbon Sink Farm was formed through a partnership between the cooperative family farm, Solidarity Farms, and the Pauma Band of Luiseno Indians in 2017. The partnership came about after extreme heat in July that year burned and withered much of the Pauma Tribal Farms trees and crops.

“The warning was clear,” Bea Alvarez, the Climate Resilience Project Coordinator at Carbon Sink Farms tells Food Tank. “Start building resilience now or give up on a livelihood derived from agriculture.”

Over the past several years, the farm has invested in a suite of carbon farming practices including cover cropping, bio-char, compost, mulch, no-till, windbreaks and hedgerows, and perennial crop transition. These practices sequester carbon, promote soil health, increase biodiversity, and build land resilience.

While atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a major contributor to climate change, it is also a resource that can be drawn into the soil to build and nourish living things. “Carbon is the single most important element on which all on-farm processes depend,” says Alvarez.

When sequestered in soil, carbon can act as a sponge and increases the soil’s water-holding capacity.

According to research from the University of California, Davis, grasslands and rangelands offer more reliable ways to sequester carbon in a climate like California, where forests are hard-hit by droughts and wildfires.

Since 2018, the amount of carbon in Carbon Sink’s soil has increased from one percent to four percent. In 2020 Carbon Sink’s soil drew down nearly 600 metric tons of CO₂, the equivalent of CO₂ emissions released by 80 households in the United States.

In the areas where the farm is utilizing no-till methods, Alvarez reports that Carbon Sink Farms is seeing an increase in plant yield. The vegetables are also better able to withstand extreme weather conditions.

Carbon Sink Farms is also working actively with allies and policymakers to promote carbon farming as a mitigation strategy in their local Climate Action Plan. It aims to cut San Diego’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. And they are helping local farmers create carbon farm plans and forming a regional network of small farms practicing carbon farming. Every fall, Carbon Sink Farms also offers self-guided tours to help consumers recognize the role they can play in climate change mitigation.

“Large or small, all farms play a significant role in mitigating the effects of climate change,” Alvarez tells Food Tank.

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