Offline today

Taking a market research trip for business development purposes so I won't be around the city today, and I won't be writing. But to think about what I'll be mulling over today, you can check out these entries from the archives:

-- Richard's Rules for Restaurant-Driven Revitalization (Updated)
-- Longing for Love and the struggle for the legal tender
-- Neighborhood Restaurant Initiative -- City of Boston -- and ...
-- To get independent businesses you need to rebuild the supporting ...
-- Nurturing independent businesses through creatively reducing ...
-- Store siting decisions
-- Why the future of urban retail isn't chains
-- more about cultural assets and revitalization
-- Restaurants as drivers of commercial district revitalization
-- Promoting Independent Retail
-- Speaking of City Revitalization...assets, assets, assets
-- Rightsizing retail for traditional shopping districts
-- Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now"

Savory Pies at Neopol, Belvedere Square, Baltimore.

Atwater's Ploughboy Soups is one of the eateries in Belvedere Square Market. (Photo by Michael Tunison, Special to baltimoresun.com)

Dutch Country Farmers Market, Burtonsville, Maryland. Washington Post photo.

What I did last weekend (buy and move heavy restaurant equipment).

Index Keywords: retail