Rollins Undergrad Presents Neighborhood App for Baldwin Park

This week Tony Lewis, a freshman business major at Rollins College and a Winter Park High School graduate, presented the first neighborhood app expressly designed for Baldwin Park. The app, which is now available on the Apple iTunes app store and the Google Play app store and is named Baldwin Park Black, contains neighborhood news, a complete business directory and multiple types of promotions and discounts.

“Baldwin Park is a great place to live, and I felt that the community deserved an app that makes being a Baldwin Park resident even better,” explains Tony. “For the last year I’ve been waiting tables at the Colibri Mexican restaurant, and I noticed that there wasn’t really a good way for residents to keep track of what’s going on. Also, businesses need a way to communicate with their most loyal customers."

Baldwin Park Black incorporates eight different functionalities. In addition to the news section and the directory, it includes a signup for monthly prize drawings, loyalty cards and coupons. The app also has it’s own access to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. According to Lewis, “I’m planning on adding new functionalities as soon as we get the project off the ground!"

When asked, Lewis commented that in the first week on the app stores, over two hundred people have already downloaded the new app. “My goal is to have at least four thousand users by the end of the year. The businesses that partner with us will be able to offer special deals to our users and we’ll be sending out push notifications on their behalf. Our phones are always with us, and for local businesses there’s no better way to reach potential customers than being in the palm of their hand."

Baldwin Park Black can be downloaded for free from the Apple app store or the Google Play Store. More information can be found at www.BaldwinParkBlack.com or by phone 866-833-1354.