Article: Streets paved with Olympic gold: Munson Steed has 'hurdled' great opposition to create a groundbreaking municipal marketing concept that means millions for Atlanta. (street vending cart and space monopoly)

Talk about working your way up from the streets. A few years ago, budding entrepreneur and former street vendor Munson W. Steed was on the outside looking in as Atlanta locked up million dollar corporate sponsorships for the upcoming Olympic Games. But a little ingenuity and a lot of effort put Steed in the driver's seat. Now he's working with those same city officials and corporate sponsors to get a rather large piece of the Olympic pie for himself

Steed, the 34-year-old president of B.G. Swing Games Management Co., devised a plan in 1994 to lease the city's parks, sidewalks and street corners to corporations for vending purposes. At a price tag of $10,000 to ...

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