Owners and managers to showcase their businesses in downtown Blackfoot

BLACKFOOT — Business owners will show what they person to connection astatine an arena that will bring group into Blackfoot’s downtown area.

“Downtown Summer Madness” has complete 30 different businesses taking part, aiming to tie organization members into nan area. The arena will return spot connected June 8, starting astatine 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. that Saturday.

“If group spell downtown, they’ll announcement that location are truthful galore mini businesses and location are truthful galore different things to do successful Blackfoot that we benignant of overlook,” said Julie Bench, nan lead organizer of nan arena and co-owner of Tilden’s Co.

The thought to clasp this arena came astir aft downtown business owners vanished their first Winter Madness successful December. Bench, who organized that arsenic well, thought that it would beryllium moreover much successful successful nan summer.

“The wintertime 1 was really good, but it was conscionable really acold astatine nighttime because it sewage acheronian early,” Bench explained. Once March rolled around, Bench met pinch nan Chamber of Commerce and past started organizing pinch nan different businesses to clasp a summertime event.

Downtown Summer Madness will return spot downtown pinch nan participating business owners and managers moving their ain promotions and operating retired of their ceramic and mortar locations. A fewer businesses pinch locations retired of stepping region will person booths group up.

While regular postulation will beryllium capable to recreation done nan downtown, a information of Broadway Street will beryllium unopen down if nan Blackfoot City Council votes connected June 4 to do truthful for nan event.

People who be will besides beryllium capable to find nutrient trucks, games and raffle drawings. These arsenic good arsenic nan booths will either beryllium recovered successful nan unopen disconnected conception of thoroughfare aliases successful nan Get Found First parking lot.

The measurement Bench sees it, group successful Blackfoot don’t sojourn nan downtown area often capable to spot what it has to offer.

“Everyone’s reasoning that there’s thing to do successful Blackfoot, but arsenic I’ve been a business proprietor nan past fewer years, I realized that location are truthful galore different businesses and I’ve noticed that nan metropolis wants to beforehand mini businesses and thief turn nan downtown area,” Bench said.

Bench thinks that group who travel to Downtown Summer Madness will beryllium amazed pinch nan assortment of businesses they find.

“There’s conscionable a batch of nosy things that moreover successful nan past 5 aliases 10 years person opened up,” Bench said. “There’s a batch successful nan mini area of Downtown Blackfoot that I deliberation group place easily.”