District of Columbia Code Division I. Government of District. § 2-1209. Purposes.

(1) To facilitate the establishment of 1 or more business incubators in the District of Columbia by offering the use of city-owned property, credit support for financing businesses in the incubator, and other incentives to ensure that tenant business costs for space and services are kept to a minimum;  and

(2) To design business incubators to assist companies through the conceptual, start-up, and early growth stages of their businesses.  The business incubator is not intended to serve merely as inexpensive quarters for established businesses.