Jeffrey Kohut
Bridgeport, CT (USA)
Role(s):
The Open Forum, Inc.
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Location:
Bridgeport
Industry:
Recreation
Year Founded:
2006
Number Employees:
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Description:
Business-Plan Sketch for The Open Forum Coffee House
Background (contextual)/Community information: The one thing that socioeconomically distressed/disenfranchised, politically-corrupt Bridgeport, Connecticut has in abundance that could accommodate a political, for-profit entertainment/retail venue, per se, is political energy in need of a locus -- a destination, in a literal sense, where the energy could be properly (productively) channeled (focused, as it were).
The population of Bridgeport, with respect to political involvement/voter turnout, is notoriously apathetic (albeit restive) and therefore highly exploitable (the same could be said of most of the rest of American cities – which is problematic for the maintenance of our democratic tradition/way of life, and ultimately, our c