CVB lauds success of 78th Pilgrimage
Of the eight years Rachel George opened her home, Baskerville Manor on Third Street North, to guests for Columbus Pilgrimage home tours, she thinks this year is the best she’s seen.
Mystery man spotted in downtown Columbus
A mystery man was spotted in downtown Columbus on Thursday.
Business is booming
Vacant retail spaces and apartments don’t stay vacant for long in downtown Columbus, reported Main Street Columbus Director Amber Brislin.
Steve Mullen: Teamwork, and vision, needed for downtown
For decades, management types have been warned to avoid a “silo” mentality in their businesses — imagine those tall Midwestern grain silos, which hold everything in and keep everything else out. Simply put, people tend to cluster within their own area, or their own department, inside a business. As the thinking goes, while individual departments within the same business might look similar, they don’t communicate — they’re trapped within their own silo. So, good ideas don’t spread and the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. The business doesn’t innovate, or grow.
Merchants’ reactions mixed after Open House
Downtown merchants saw mixed results from Main Street Columbus’ Downtown Spring Open House event Friday and Saturday, but all agreed they would participate again next year.