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Small Business Saturday just in time for Uptown Minneapolis
Uptown small businesses ready for Saturday surge
Small Business Saturday is coming just in time for Uptown Minneapolis. FOX 9’s Corin Hoggard has the full story.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Small Business Saturday is here, and it’s coming just in time for Uptown Minneapolis.
Shopping local
Nationally, people spent $17 billion at small businesses on the day last year.
The beeps have started on a milestone weekend for Comma, A Bookshop.
Small Business Saturday is the second anniversary of the store’s opening.
“We’re doing some specials and giveaways,” said owner Victoria Ford. “We’re going to have birthday cake, we’re doing a book drive for the Queer Space Collective.”
And maybe most importantly, they’ll be doing great sales as people turn their holiday shopping focus away from big box stores and to small, local businesses.
“A day like that makes a huge difference in our overall success over the year,” Ford said. “It’s typically our second busiest day of the year.”
The boost is especially appreciated in places like Uptown, where businesses have struggled recently, and construction on Hennepin didn’t help.
Foot traffic returns
Seven months of closures ended Tuesday.
“With the roads opening up this week and with the holidays and everything, it actually brings that regular business,” said Uptown Diner general manager Pablo Forero. “This is what it’s usually been like for us. So it’s nice to see.”
People packed the Uptown Diner for lunch Friday, but small business owners aren’t sure yet if they’re back to normal or if it’s just a holiday weekend bubble.
They know for sure a lot of the neighboring storefronts have gone vacant in the last four or five years and they’d love to see foot traffic back where it was before the pandemic.
“People were scared away for various reasons,” said Jeff Veigel, who owns Isles Bun & Coffee. “So it’s like, come back. The lakes are still here. It’s still a nice area to walk around. Still a nice area to shop and to live.”
His coffee and pastry shop — known for the frosted cinnamon twists called puppy dog tails — filled up on Friday as well, but Uptown sidewalks were mostly empty as wind chills dipped near zero.
But businesses like Isles, and Magers and Quinn, and the Uptown Diner are hoping to see big crowds for Small Business Saturday.
And that their success spills over.
Community impact
“We bring in more people and then more people come around and check out the businesses that are around us as well,” Forero said.
The U.S. Small Business Administration estimates that when you spend $100 at a small business, $48 stay in the community.
If you spend it at a big-box store or national retailer, only $14 stays.
“We hope for more of it,” said Veigel. “We hope that people remember that year-round.”
Baking in the best-case scenario before another round of construction in 2025.
MINNEAPOLIS (WJON News) — A popular Broadway show will be hitting a Minnesota stage this fall. Mamma Mia! will jump-start the Broadway on Hennepin series at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis from September 15th to the 20th.
Mamma Mia! has been seen in 50 productions in 16 different languages.
The 25th Anniversary production of Mamma Mia! made its return to Broadway last year for a limited run at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it got its start. The show also had a record-setting 14-year run on Broadway and toured from 2000 to 2017 with four different touring companies.
Mamma Mia! has grossed over $7 billion at the box office.
It inspired the blockbuster smash starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, and Amanda Seyfried as well. The 2018 follow-up, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the most successful live musical movie sequel of all time.
Mamma Mia! is written by Catherine Johnson and directed by Phyllida Lloyd with choreography by Anthony Van Laast. Tickets for the show go on sale at 10:00 a.m. on Friday.
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A child was seriously injured after a car hit them in an alley in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.
Minneapolis police say a child was playing in an alley near 29th Avenue North and Lyndale Avenue North around 11:30 a.m. when a car hit them. The child was brought to the hospital with potentially-life-threatening injuries, police added.
The child’s age was not released by law enforcement.
The driver of the car stayed at the scene and is cooperating with law enforcement, Minneapolis police said.
There have been no arrests at this time.
A Minneapolis man is behind bars after stabbing a woman early Saturday morning.
According to the Minneapolis Police Department, officers responded to a stabbing around 12:30 a.m. near the intersection of W 24th St. and Pillsbury Avenue. Officers found an adult woman with a non-life-threatening injury consistent with an edged blade.
Authorities said a man known to the woman stabbed her after a verbal argument escalated.
Police arrested a 49-year-old man and is currently at the Hennepin County Jail, pending a second-degree domestic assault charge.
Police said no one else was hurt. The case remains under investigation.
If you or someone you know is experiencing abuse, several resources are available to offer help. For immediate help, contact:
More than 12 million people just in the U.S. are affected by domestic violence every year, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
The organizations listed above can help connect victims to resources like safe shelter, advocacy, legal help and support groups.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline also offers tips for identifying abuse and supporting victims of abuse. CLICK HERE to see those.
Other organizations that can help include:
Minnesota also has a list of many other resources for victims of crimes that can be found HERE.
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