Springfield Vintage

It’s that time of year!!!!
The shop is up for —-antique/vintage
—-used clothing

The Best of Springfield® Readers Poll is now open for voting!

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And mark your calendar for the BOS party on Thursday, Oct. 29, at the BOS Center as we celebrate the winners.

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So true!!!!! Worth the read

I’ve been in enough conversations about downtown revitalization to know we can make it sound very exciting on paper. We want more restaurants, boutiques and “things for the kids to do.” We want the old buildings filled and the sidewalks super busy. We want young people to stay because there’s opportunity to stay for, visitors to come and families to choose our town and want to settle down here. Then, eventually, somebody’s gotta do it. And that’s the part we sometimes gloss over. “We need a great restaurant downtown” sounds wonderful in a planning meeting or when you’re having coffee with a buddy, or for my town specifically, on a HIP Facebook group (🫩). For the person who decides to open it, that idea might mean signing a five-year lease, borrowing money, buying equipment, hiring at least ten people and hoping enough of us actually meant it when we said we wanted one. I’ve sat on the planning side discussing what we wanted downtown to become. I’ve sat on the business side looking at what things actually cost. Those are VERY different conversations. The community and planning committees get to imagine the possibility. The entrepreneur has to make the math work. And if they get that math wrong or the community doesn’t show up? We might lose a nice restaurant, but that business owner loses everything they put into it and sometimes their livelihood for a bit, too. That doesn’t mean communities should subsidize every idea or keep businesses alive that simply don’t work. Small business owners still have to build good businesses, understand their numbers and give people a reason to come back. But I think we should have a little more respect for what we’re actually asking people to do when we say, “Someone should open one of those here.” We need to act like it’s the big deal it is because small businesses are typically one person at the top betting their life savings on this business, and that bet is one that could really work out for your entire town. It’s also a bet they carry the vast majority of the risk on. Sending love to all my small business owners - hope you have a great weekend! ❤️

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Great news everyone!! The city FINALLY removed the parking meters!!!