Location, Location, Location!

Well, I finally made it to downtown Flint to see if there might be a location for the cafe and store. While encouraged by the response of those with whom I spoke, there wasn't a space readily available that I could see or get pricing on. That kind of surprised me, especially since there still seemed to be a lot of empty store fronts on S. Saginaw. I met with the management at Capital Theater, Uptown Developments, The LandBank and the Flint DDA without any solid leads. I mostly heard, hmmm, there's that space over there that might be good, or I think so and so is moving around the corner so that might work, or that space would have been perfect but its leased. Not terribly helpful at this point. I was also told about locations in Grand Blanc and down by Mott College, but that is not the areas I wish to be in. I either want downtown Flushing, or downtown Flint. I dont want to drive to Grand Blanc or Clio everyday and since I also want to have community involvement, I want it to be a community which I care about and have some investment in terms of connection - I have that for Flint or Flushing, not the others.

Glad I decided not to register for the race this weekend - mostly to save money - its raining today and probably will all day and its very windy again, so I would NOT have enjoyed it or done well at all - phew - one right decision this week! Still have to get some miles in this weekend, so hope it at least dries out at some point.
Christine