Many small communities are struggling today. Identities are lost. Purpose, goals, and missions are diluted or weakened. Leaders are at odds. Some communities are surviving in spite of themselves. We “get” what makes a successful main street tick. We also know what makes them sick.
How healthy is your downtown?
Find out what’s working for you and/or against you. Our experts will determine strengths and weaknesses to help you make informed, 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 and/or 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.
Fresh perspective brings new momentum. It’s not just about a new logo or brand, it’s how you market these pieces, and how you integrate them with events, downtown decor, videos and social media. Work with our team to give life to existing efforts, find new opportunities, and develop renewed messages that speak clearly to targeted markets. Need an injection of quick results? Ask us about our “48-hour Makeover!”
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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 30 years of experience is hard to find. Lyn has turned her experience into inspiring and digestible seminars. She has been a featured speaker at numerous seminars across the country (click here for a list). 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.
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Click here for Lyn Falk’s Bio.
Downtown Business Districts – In Wisconsin
Downtown Business Districts – Outside of Wisconsin
Carbondale, IL
Centerville, IA
Cleveland, OH
Dover, NH
Freeport, IL
Gettysburg, PA
Jacksonville, IL (statewide presentation)
Libertyville, IL (statewide presentation)
Menominee, MI Niles, MI
Sioux City, IA (statewide presentation)
Wauseca, MN
Westfield, NJ
Lyn has been a presenter at the following National Main Street Conferences
Kansas City, 2018
Pittsburgh, 2017
Milwaukee, 2016
Atlanta, 2015
Detroit, 2014
Boston, 2000
