Some bike riders are feeling a little desperate about bike safety and are considering trying new routes to safely navigate through downtown Northfield.
We think there’s still hope for a better solution…
In his “Citizen Wig” blog, Griff is urging bike riding citizens of Northfield to get involved in the design discussions on the City’s Streetscape Plan.
The NDDC is launching another Retail Initiative. For Parent and Family Weekends at St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, we’re going to distribute bags full of goodies from downtown.
We’ve had iniitial discussions with a few retailers and the ideas include pens, refrigerator magnets, chip clips, measuring tapes, coupon books, brochures and candy bars. Think of the State Fair but a little hipper.
Here’s the trick; time is tight. We need to get everything in to the NDDC office by Wednesday, September 28th. We’ll stuff the bags on Thursday the 29th for distribution at St. Olaf on Saturday, October 1st and Carleton on Satruday, October 15th.
We’re really hoping that you’ll participate. The more we get stuffed in the bags, the more likely that the parents and families will say, “Let’s go downtown”.
Any comments or questions, call Ross at the NDDC office, 663-0319.
This column ran in the September 14 edition of the Northfield News.
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Twenty one building and business owners met on Tuesday morning at the Rueb-N-Stein, enjoying the fine hospitality, as well as the delicious doughnuts, of Joe and Jody Grundhoefer. Oh yeah, we talked about some stuff too.
The first topic concerned recent NDDC Retail Initiatives. There was the Welcome Students campaign that was launched at the end of August to recognize first-year college students at both St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges. We followed that with a Family Weekend project that will be initiated at the end of September. For the Parents and families of St. Olaf and Carleton students, we’re planning to present them with a bag of goodies to entice them to visit the many fine establishments in downtown. Downtown retailers are encouraged to get goodies to the NDDC for bagging by Wednesday, September 28th.
We then heard from New Division Development on their plans for the Lansing Hardware property. Partners Randy Lutz and Beth Closner presented new details on design and, perhaps most exciting, a rumor that the Northfield Liquor Store might relocate to this developement. As usual, many of the building and business owners expressed their desire that the city might do more for parking in downtown. I suggested that they might follow Red Wing’s example and build a modest parking structure underneath the development to support this economic expansion. The slope of site makes a lower level of parking possible.
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The titles of the concepts are less important that the elements that each contains.
Attend the
Public Forum on the City’s Streetscape Plan
Wednesday, September 28th
4:30 to 6:00 PM
in the Archer House Meeting Room
Review the two concepts
presented by the consultants
and offer feedback
to city staff.
