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Downtown Development Authority Initiates Survey of Downtown Retail

By Knox van Nagell | November 25th, 2009 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog

Retail survey to show what downtown needs: group begins inventory of areas’ business needs, obstacles

Excerpt from Kentucky.com, posted Nov. 24, 2009

By Beverly Fortune, bfortune@herald-leader.com

The Downtown Development Authority has initiated a retail survey to find ways to encourage more locally owned businesses to open downtown.

As the first step, “We inventoried what is on the first floor of every building in the downtown core, whether it is food, office, entertainment, commercial or if it’s vacant,” Harold Tate, president of the DDA, told board members Monday… Read more at Kentucky.com

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