How healthy is your downtown?
Find out what’s working for you and/or against you. Our experts will determine strengths, weaknesses and areas of opportunities to help you make informed and effective decisions when it comes to updating your image, identity, brand, signage, building façades, streetscape amenities, and business mix.
Click here to read more about our four valuable audits and consults.
What brings customers downtown? Destination retail, unique food offerings, cool art installations that represent your community’s offerings, programmed green spaces, and heritage centers that provide amazing visitor experiences. These are what get people moving, shopping, sharing, and coming back again and again. Our team can identify, create, and help implement all of these vital components.
Tired of having to deal with dark empty storefronts, dirty alleys, and unused green space? Can’t get your merchants to improve their window displays? Bring our ‘display brigade’ to town and watch the transformation begin. They’ll clean up, dress up, and lighten up all your eyesores. Watch them create some visual magic in your downtown!
Click here to view vacant windows we have transformed.
Click here to view storefronts we have designed.
Most alleyways are dark, dirty, (sometimes dangerous) and foreboding corridors. Many are hardly ever used as thoroughfares anymore and they aren’t maintained. Why not turn these empty spaces into welcoming passageways? Clean them up, illuminate them and add some decorative elements to bring them back to life. Retailworks, Inc can help you shed light on these dark spaces with the addition of planters, florals, colorful wall murals, brick pavers, lighting and more.
Cohesive branding efforts can strengthen the messaging of your downtown as a whole, benefiting all local businesses. Our Branded Seasonal Decor (a series of custom designed window decals and coordinated window displays), and a community-wide sign plan will help your downtown make a bigger visual impact.
Click here to see Eagle River, WI.
Click here to see Whitefish Bay, WI.
Need an injection of quick results in your downtown? Ask us about our “48-Hour” and “24-Hour” Makeovers for small businesses. Be part of the planning and makeover process, then alert the media for ribbon-cutting. They are great community-building activities!
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A few minutes with Lyn Falk, and you’ll realize she truly lives and breathes retail. You’ll also realize meeting someone with her depth of knowledge and over 35 years of experience is hard to find. An international speaker, she is often asked to return to give an encore performance (click here for a list) Lyn has turned her experience into inspiring and digestible seminars. She has streamlined her research and distilled the information into actionable items so main street directors and main street merchants can breathe new life into the hearts of their downtowns.
Seminar topics include:
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Downtown Business Districts – In Wisconsin
Downtown Business Districts – Outside of Wisconsin
Blissfield, MI
Bloomfield, IA
Boyne City, MI
Burlington, IA
Carbondale, IL*
Centerville, IA
Chariton, IA
Cleveland, OH
Deadwood, SD
Dover, NH
Florida State
Freeport, IL
Gettysburg, PA
Grosse Pointe, MI
Keokuk, IA
Jacksonville, IL (statewide presentation)
Lansing, MI*
Libertyville, IL (statewide presentation)
Menominee, MI
Murphysboro, IL*
Niles, MI*
Sioux City, IA (statewide presentation)
Wauseca, MN
Westfield, NJ
Wheeling, WV
Lyn has been a presenter at the following National Main Street Conferences
Boston, MA, 2000, 2023
Virtual Conference, 2021
Kansas City, MO, 2018
Pittsburgh, PA, 2017
Milwaukee, WI, 2016
Atlanta, GA, 2015
Detroit, MI, 2014
Topics include:
Or, we are happy to create a seminar to fit your audience’s specific needs.
