Huntingburg Chamber Welcomes Seven New Businesses to Downtown, Part of Transitional Period, says Mayor Spinner

BY: DAVID SHEPHERD, NEWS DIRECTOR 

HUNTINGBURG -- The Huntingburg Chamber of Commerce hosted 7 ribbon-cuttings Friday morning for new businesses on or around 4th Street.

The idea came from mayor Denny Spinner who admits work on the 4th Street Heritage Trail Project ended up being a transitional time for the city.

"In many of those cases, the transition was a time for some of those businesses that have been on 4th Street for a long time, they were looking for a transitional time," Spinner says.  

"And while we lost some key businesses that had been part of Huntingburg for a long time, even those people were very secure, and were very comfortable that there would be people to follow their path and come back in.   

And, the mayor says, he thinks other businesses will take notice.

"The interest draws more interest. When you seven new businesses, the number of people who say, 'yes, I need to take a look at Huntingburg.  That's what this investment is all about."

The changes within the city of Huntingburg all came together thanks to the Stellar Communities designation says mayor Spinner.  "The beauty of the Stellar Communities program was it allowed us to be strategic about how we wanted to approach this and also gave us the resources to do it."

The Chamber scheduled a ribbon cutting every 15 minutes beginning at 10:30 this morning at Bean to Sprout.  They did the same at Key Associates, Firefly Boutique, Kim’s Koffee, Ella & Ivy Home and Linda’s Nails and Rugged Foot.

The Chamber will host another ribbon-cutting on Monday at Offset Promotions.  It also recently opened up on 4th Street.