Small towns here try to revitalize their downtowns in many ways. They open restaurants in vacant buildings and from there other businesses will move in. We joke that every small town in America has a nail salon, hair salon, and dry cleaners. This tree is in Roanoke, where the black and white calico boy lives. Roanoke has wrapped their downtown trees in mini lights to shine every night of the year. Their hope is the lighted trees will bring people downtown after dark, to dine in the restaurants and stroll the streets. This for “branches” the word today.
@farmreporter@grammyn@ludwigsdiana@joansmor@dridsdale@linnypinny@bkbinthecity@happysnaps@carolmw@happypat@pcoulson thank you so much for your wonderful comments and fave. Roanoke is a suburb of Fort Worth and the urban “crawl” from the Dallas area is headed that way as well. I think their city council was smart to position themselves now as a place for lunch or dinner as the two areas grow closer. Roanoke was a farming town and you still see cowboys in boots and hats walking around, they get out of pickup trucks instead of getting off of their horses now, though. 😊
Well, I hope those small town businesses will survive what this pandemic has done to them- shut downs, slow downs and people not being allowed to go out and shop. I know the ones around here are really struggling. good shot!
@olivetreeann our restaurants are at 50% occupancy and have been since June. Every retail business is hanging on for dear life - the ones who can mail their goods have done well. We’ve lost some businesses that aren’t coming back. What a time for our small and really our large businesses too!
Great shot and idea to attract people to the town. I think it is going to take a lot more that this to revive our city after restaurants have been forced to shutdown since before Christmas and until February 8th. And it looks like this could be extended due to our rising Covid numbers.
