Inside 43215: Downtown Draw
TAKE WHO?
Take Your Daughter to Work Day?
Take Your Son to Work Day?
Who comes up with these ideas? Some of us go to work for the express purpose of hiding from our children.
Take Mom&Pop to Work? That’s a different thing entirely. This is the highly unofficial announcement of Bring Your Mom&Pop to Work Week. Downtown Columbus is home to 100,000 employees, 5,000 residents and 31,000 students. With the addition of visitors, we have a potential $750 million to spend annually. We want to spend the money on Mom&Pop – so it’s time to import some more hometown Mom&Pop businesses.
Plenty of little joints thrive here now. Stanton Sheet Music (one of the few spots in town that sells sheet music) has been around for forty years. Jeni’s Fresh Ice Cream started its dairy empire from The North Market. B1 Bicycles is a newcomer that’s doing so well, it’s already expanded.
There’s still room for more. Jen Wells works in the Smith Brothers Hardware Building and she says she’d like to see a whimsical stop like Ruby’s downtown. Pattee Boham, who’s employed at Grant, votes for an antique store; her colleague Lisa McClelland would like to see a comic book place. Jim Sheridan in the Ohio Supreme Court Building just wants some El Vaquero…
And you? What do you want to bring downtown to celebrate Bring Your Mom&Pop to Work Week?
