November Blog 2024
We’re celebrating so much here in Middletown!
Since November is the time for being thankful for the family, friends, and the fruits and bounty of the year, we’re also thankful for the businesses we have here in Middletown.
In 2024 Middletown welcomed:
- Beans and Dream’s Nektario’s Place
- The Turquoise Trailer
- Phillips Family Vision
- Hearth and Home Mercantile
- New owners of The Main Cup
- The opening of the Memorial Hall Apartments
- The opening of the Main Street Welcome Center
- The opening of the new Frederick County Public Library Branch
We’ll also be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Edward Jones office run by Brad Myers located in the South Church Street Business Center, and the 40th anniversary of the conversion of the Hanover Shoe Factory into the South Church Street Business Center. We’re also looking ahead to next year when Gladhill Furniture celebrates its 110th anniversary and when Aleko’s Restaurant moves to the old Post Office Building on North Church Street.
From our newest business to our oldest businesses, our Main Street is filled with a vibrant mix of seasoned entrepreneurs, new entrepreneurs, generational businesses, and start-ups. It keeps us feeling energetic, alive, bursting with new ideas, and yet, assured that we are part of a community that supports our small businesses and treasures these one-of-a kind businesses headed by people we call friends, family, neighbors, and professional colleagues.
The last week in October, we celebrated Small Business Appreciation Week with the Frederick County Office of Economic Development. This week creates space for business owners and a team of folks that included County employees, the Main Street Manager, and locally elected officials to make a visit, sit down, and actually just talk. Hearing the hopes and dreams of business owners, or hearing what motivated them to become small business owners is incredibly inspiring! The passion, expertise in their field, and even their “secret sauce” to success makes you proud to even just be on the outskirt edges of their dynamic personalities.
We are so thankful to live and work in a community that values the past but also thrives on ingenuity, creativity, and new ideas. If you have not been to downtown lately, we invite you to come and explore our downtown.
Be sure to save the date for Small Business Saturday which is November 30 and you too can see first hand the excitement and vibrancy of our businesses!