Some Carden Street businesses don’t have a parking problem; they have a marketing problem.
I’m amazed at the urban vitality springing up from the re-construction of Carden Street in downtown Guelph.
First the skating rink, now the splash zone and transit hub are truly transforming the area.
Opening the street to pedestrians-only during festivals will bring even more people to the area this summer.
A lot of work went into the construction period that did have an impact on the businesses in the immediate area.
All that effort has now delivered hundreds, if not thousands of new prospective customers to the front doors of these businesses.
And yet some of these merchants are unable to entice new people into their stores.
What’s more, they seem to spend an inordinate amount of time saying that the visitors are causing a “parking problem”.
Perhaps they should spend time figuring out how to turn these visitors at their front door into customers instead of complaining about parking. EF