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\"\"<\/a>The North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation (NCMDC) recently granted a $20,000 micro-loan to Lauren and Zack Rohacik, owners of Steel Strength and Nutrition<\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0Steel Strength and Nutrition is a retail supplement store located at 458 Park Avenue in Worcester.\u00a0 This business provides its customers affordable, high quality vitamins and minerals, herbal supplements, clean sports nutrition, meal replacements, and a limited selection of sports apparel and weight lifting equipment.\u00a0 Zachary and Lauren have spent their entire adult lives as fitness enthusiasts, and competitive power lifters as well as coaches and sponsors of youth organizations, church groups and gyms.<\/p>\n

This loan will assist with the purchase of inventory, as well as marketing and other costs associated with starting the new business. The loan was a referral from the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Clark University.\u00a0 SBDC also assisted Lauren and Zack with a business plan and financial package.<\/p>\n

As a microloan lender, the North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation can provide loans to small businesses up to $150,000 for working capital, equipment, inventory, expansion and can work with our banking partners to provide gap financing for the final piece of a project.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation (NCMDC) recently granted a $20,000 micro-loan to Lauren and Zack Rohacik, owners of Steel Strength and Nutrition. \u00a0\u00a0Steel Strength and Nutrition is a retail supplement store located at 458 Park Avenue in Worcester.\u00a0 This business provides its customers affordable, high quality vitamins and minerals, herbal supplements, clean sports nutrition, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nNorth Central Massachusetts Development Corp\u00a0Grants a Micro-Loan to Small Business in Worcester » North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The North Central Massachusetts 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