Success Stories Category: Small Business

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The Altoona Container Park—branded as The Yard—represents a forward-thinking approach to small business development, community placemaking, and downtown revitalization.

Links set out to revamp the studio inside and out so it would reflect the principles being taught and enhance them through modernization while maintaining a connection to the building’s heritage within Mayville’s downtown.

The Brew Station had a parking area in the rear that they proposed transforming into an outdoor beer garden, allowing customers to enjoy the outdoors year-round.

A project to expand the Village Green central gathering place created an opportunity to add permanent amenities to the park such as a shaded pergola and accessible seating areas.

A Vibrant Spaces Grant from WEDC helped to transform an underutilized Mosinee city property and an adjacent parking lot into City Square Park.

With the help of a Vibrant Spaces Grant from WEDC, the community revitalized a vacant 5,500-square-foot lot, transforming it into a plaza for Waupaca residents and visitors.

St. James Social has eight boutique hotel rooms on the second floor, with an 18-person sauna, a coffee and tea bar, and a rooftop lounge for hotel guests with views of downtown Bayfield and Lake Superior.