Having lived and worked in Timaru, he had attended "fantastic" free courses run through the Aoraki Development Trust.
Not only was he surrounded by other positive people at those courses, which could be on anything from social networking to GST and accounting, but they were delivered by people with credibility.
Sometimes, Mr Streeter would go to courses he had already been to because he was "always picking up little things" and to "feed off that positivity".
When he moved to Oamaru to join his fiancee about three years ago, opening Streeter Concepts Signwriting and Design in Severn St, it got him thinking.
He was later spurred on by an article he read about the declining population in the district.
Mr Streeter, who is also a distributor for automotive products, has teamed up with another young professional, architectural designer Josh Dooley.
The pair were the brains behind Business Development Oamaru. The first meeting for the group was yet to be set although Mr Streeter expected it would be in the next couple of weeks.
The key was to have a positive group of people to bounce ideas around, with the aim of helping retain young people in the town and also helping established businesses grow.
It was intended to have informal monthly meetings at various venues. It was hoped to bring in some business mentors and Mr Streeter expected other ideas would also surface.
It was fortunate that some established business people, including Whitestone Cheese general manager Simon Berry, had offered to help.
"They've done it all before," Mr Streeter said.
In turn, the younger generation could help some of their older counterparts by showing them the ways they did business, such as the use of social media.
Social media was "huge" and was a tool that could make business in a small town work and grow, he said.
When Mr Streeter shifted south, he was told it would be hard to open a new business in Oamaru.
At the same time as he was establishing his business, his father was diagnosed with cancer and it was a difficult time.
However, business was going well and had grown to the point where he had taken on an employee.
If it continued to expand at the rate being experienced at the moment, another staff member would be hired.
Both Mr Streeter and Mr Dooley were enthusiastic about the launch of Business Development Oamaru.
Once the group was established, Mr Streeter hoped to involve schools and get school pupils to do work experience in some workplaces that were "cool and fun and quirky".
He often had pupils on work experience at his business and was keen to get the youth involved.
There were many "awesome, creative people" in Oamaru and Mr Streeter believed the town had a lot of potential.
He was particularly captivated by the steampunk movement, which he tried to help and support as much as possible, as it was gaining the town attention.
