Majority of downtown businesses offering promotions at Blackfoot street fair

BLACKFOOT — One of Blackfoot’s downtown streets will beryllium closed disconnected to regular conveyance postulation for a thoroughfare adjacent this weekend.

The Blackfoot Downtown Street Fair will return spot this Saturday astatine 3 to 6 p.m. The arena will return spot passim Blackfoot’s downtown area pinch nan mostly of its businesses offering promotions, and North Broadway from Bridge Street to Pacific Street will beryllium closed to vehicles, allowing pedestrians to sojourn astir 20 pop-up vendors.

“Blackfoot is really nan spot to beryllium this weekend,” said Jamie Popejoy, head of nan Blackfoot Area Chamber of Commerce.

Thanks to nan support of Get Found First, a integer trading institution successful Blackfoot, Rico Taco, nan Corn Dog Company and Lemon Smashers will beryllium group up successful its parking batch astatine nan area of Broadway and West Bridge Street.

There are 15 downtown businesses participating successful nan fair, which Popejoy said is nan mostly successful nan area, arsenic good arsenic 19 pop-up vendors, offering promotions for fairgoers.

The enclosure decided to shape this arena arsenic isolated of their efforts to tie much attraction to nan businesses successful nan downtown. Popejoy feels that galore group aren’t alert of what Blackfoot’s downtown has to offer.

“Our small downtown is underestimated,” Popejoy said. “We’re ever successful a unreserved to spell to Pocatello and Idaho Falls without checking retired what we person locally, truthful we wanted to bring an arena downtown for group to travel down and spot what Blackfoot has to offer.”

A schematic for nan arena | Courtesy Greater Blackfoot Area Chamber of Commerce

A representation for nan arena | Courtesy Greater Blackfoot Area Chamber of Commerce