Our mission is to extend consciousness of how procuring domestically creates financial development within the Marshall neighborhood.
— Marshall Space Chamber of Commerce
A profile on right this moment’s entrance web page presents a very good reminder for us about the advantages of procuring native. Shauna Bjorklund tells her story about taking on the Gambler Sports activities Bar and Grill from longtime proprietor Tom Pearcy. The 2012 Tracy Excessive College graduate additionally earned a advertising and marketing diploma at Southwest Minnesota State College.
“Proudly owning a enterprise was one thing I’d considered,” she mentioned. “It was one thing I possibly wished sooner or later sooner or later. I didn’t assume it might occur this quickly.”
Bjorklund’s alternative leads us to the significance of supporting our native companies. She is becoming a member of the ranks of small enterprise possession that makes our neighborhood distinctive. Every small enterprise presents merchandise and providers that’s necessary for Important Avenue prosperity and development. A neighborhood that doesn’t develop is a neighborhood that’s stagnant and presents little to native shoppers.
The mission assertion above addresses the continued battle for neighborhood {dollars}. In fact, it’s straightforward to open the laptop computer and click on onto our favourite on-line procuring websites. In the meantime, we complain when a retailer on Important Avenue closes or favourite restaurant on the town closes its doorways for good.
Our native companies, greater than ever, want our help. Earlier than reaching for that laptop computer, take into consideration visiting an area enterprise. There are good causes to try this. The Chamber’s web site lists a few of these causes:
• Charities and nonprofits obtain extra help from native companies
• Native companies make investments in the neighborhood
• Preserve/add jobs in the neighborhood
• Elevated native spending brings extra alternatives for spending
• It’s your neighborhood — do your half to maintain it rising
Whereas the media continues to remind us of potential nationwide recession on the horizon, right here in Marshall there are indicators of optimism. Final week Harbor Freight introduced plans to open a location on the previous ShopKo constructing. In the meantime, the Atlantic Place Restaurant is predicted to open quickly on the previous Bello Cucina location. These bigger companies that may be anchors for our smaller companies providing extra procuring choices right here in Marshall.
The answer to sustaining a thriving enterprise neighborhood that provides loads of choices in relation to merchandise and providers begins with all of us.
Store native and watch our neighborhood develop.
