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The Future of Main Street Businesses Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis Why Erie’s Downtown is a Proxy for the Nation: The Future of Main Street Businesses amidst the COVID-19 Crisis By Bruce Katz and Ben Speggen WHY ERIE’S DOWNTOWN IS A PROXY FOR THE NATION: THE FUTURE OF MAIN STREET BUSINESSES AMIDST THE COVID-19 CRISIS The storefront of Ember+Forge, on the corner of Fourth and State streets in downtown Erie. A 15-minute walk—or a stroll just shy of three-quarters (read: takeout/carryout only) running for as long as they of a mile—separates a coffee shop and a brewery in the can during uncertain circumstances without a clear end in downtown of Pennsylvania’s fourth largest city. They sight when it comes to both time and situation. are—along with what lies in between—part of an urban core that has been undergoing a renaissance that’s taken Like many cities, one strength of Erie lies in its close- years to build but may be wiped out in only weeks. knit network of public, private, civic, and community leaders. While Congress slow-walks a nationwide relief Unlike site-specific natural disasters—a tornado tearing package, which may take months to implement, key through the heartland, or a hurricane spiraling up the institutions in Erie are keeping small businesses afloat country’s southeastern panhandle—COVID-19 has left either by deferring payments or by providing emergency virtually no corner of the country untouched, including funds. They are keeping it simple and moving it fast, a the northwestern tip of Pennsylvania that kisses Lake modus operandi that should be repeated by the federal Erie. Erie’s economic ecosystem is like many across government. These networks are also equipped to post-industrial America and exemplifies the current dire ensure that the recovery, when it comes, builds on the straits of many main streets. If appropriate action isn’t city’s distinctive advantages and tight relationships and taken fast, among the virus’s victims will be many of these deploys local capital that is flexible and customized. small businesses upon which revivals and renaissances have been staked nationwide. A sharp look at Erie’s nascent renaissance and the current contraction not only explains this crisis but Take two different examples located at 401 State Street shows how intentional action, in both the immediate and and 128 W. 12th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania: Ember+Forge intermediate term, must constantly move from the local and Lavery Brewing Company, respectively, two beacons to the national and back again. of the service industry. The former, a thriving local coffee shop, just celebrated RENAISSANCE INTERRUPTED its second birthday in December. A decade strong, the latter just recently launched a second location, doubling Erie’s comeback story isn’t a tale told overnight. Rather, its business by both revenue and expenses. it’s a years-long wrestling with a question facing a lot of legacy cities: Where do we go from here in a post- Despite these strong headwinds, in the last two weeks, both industrial world? And, perhaps more pressingly, who do businesses have had to lay off the majority of their staff, we want to be now that we must shift if we’re to, at the resorting to skeleton crews to keep adapted operations least, survive or, at the most, thrive? 2 PLACES TO VISIT Blasco Library & Maritime Museum 1 C4 / 814.451.6900 / 150 E Front St. Dafmark Dance Theater It Starts 2 H3 / 814.314.1551 / 1033 State St. Dramashop Contemporary Theater 3 G3 / dramashop.org / 1001 State St. 2nd Floor Erie Arts & Culture 4 G2 / 814.452.3427 / 23 W 10th St. Suite 2 Erie Art Museum 5 E3 / 814.459.5477 / 20 E 5th St. Erie Philharmonic 6 G2 / 814.455.1375 / 23 W 10th St. Suite 3 Downtown WHY ERIE’S DOWNTOWN IS A PROXY FOR THE NATION: THE FUTURE OF MAIN STREET BUSINESSES AMIDST THE COVID-19 CRISIS Erie Playhouse 7 G3 / 814.454.2852 / 13 W 10th St. LIVE • WORK • PLAY • SHOP • STAY Erie Regional Chamber 8 B5 / 814.454.7191 / 208 E Bayfront Pkwy #100 expERIEnce Children’s Museum ErieDowntown.com 9 E4 / 814.453.3743 / 420 French St. HarborView Miniature Golf /ErieDowntownPartnership @ERIDTN @eriedowntown /ErieDowntown 10 C3 / 814.874.3536 / 36 State St. Lake Erie Ballet 11 H5 / 814.871.4356 / 701 Holland St. Performing Artists Collective Alliance (PACA) 12 I3 / 814.434.0687 / 1505 State St. OutfittedSchuster Gallery infrastructure-wise 13 F2 / 814.871.5467 / 700 Peach St. 1 2 3 4 5 for whatSchuster was Theatre to be anticipated 14 F1 / 814.871.5467 / 619 Sassafras St. Thomas B. Hagen History Center Bicentennial growth,15 E1 / 814.454.1813 Erie / 356built W 6th St. itself out Tower VisitErie Port to 16be B5 the/ 814.454.1000 home / 208 E Bayfront of Pkwy 150,000 #103 Authority Warner Theater A A 17 G3 / 814.452.4857 / 811 State St. RESTAURANTS & BARS RESTAURANTS residents.Alkeme The city saw its Courtyard Erie Victorian 1 E3 / 814.616.8578 / 18 N Park Row Bayfront Hotel Princess populationArby’s rise throughout the H2 / 814.456.0603 / 101 W 12th St. 45 2 Water Taxi 43 Bayfront Grille Dobbins B2 / 814.454.2005 / 55 W Bay Rd. Sheraton 61 mid-20th3 century and peak Hotel Landing Big Bar Bayfront 4 G3 / 814.636.5256 / 14 E 10th St. Convention in theBolero late ‘60s, edging in on Center 54 5 G2 / 814.459.2220 / 2-16 W 10th St. 46 140,000.Bourbon BarrelAfter that, it’s been 3 Brig H3 / 814.452.3000 / 1213 State St. 6 Fishing Niagara Brewerie at Union Station Charters a story7 I2 / 814.454.2200of decline, / 123 W 14th St. and today B B Cake Zen Scallywags hovers8 H3 around/ 814.626.8500 / 1001 100,000. State St. #105 Pirate Adventure Calamari’s Squid Row Intermodal 9 I3 / 814.459.4276 / 1317 State St. Transportation Casablanca Hookah Lounge To Liberty Park Transient 8 16 Center 10 E2 / 814.452.4544 / 27 W 5th St. Dock Blasco Library & Chuck & Ginny's at the Arena Maritime Museum VisitErie From a shingle factory, to 1 11 F4 / 814.456.1806 / 723 French St. Erie Regional Chamber Cloud 9 10 G4 / 814.452.4955 / 25 E 10th St. Erie Sports a paper12 mill, to Erie’s once Commission Coconut Joe's 13 E3 / 814.455.4705 / 1133, 28 N Park Row largestDarjeeling employer, Kitchen General H3 / 814.603.9421 / 1014 State St. C W Front St C 14 E Front St ElectricDave's Transportation, Diner which 15 E3 / 814.580.9725 / 26 N Park row Docksider's UPMC set16 upH3 its/ 814.879.0708 headquarters / 1015 State St. at the Hamot Dominick’s 24 Hour Eatery turn17 ofH4 / 814.456.6891the /20th 123 E 12th St. century in Domino's Pizza W 2nd St E 2nd St 18 I3 / 814.455.0005 / 1402 Turnpike St. Erie andEl Amigos sinced merged with 19 D3 / 814.454.5626 / 319 State St. Pittsburgh-basedEmber + Forge Wabtec in 20 D3 / 814.651.0718 / 401 State St. Erie Club D W 3rd St E 3rd St D 201921 E2and / 814.455.1328 now / 524 Peach only St. employs Franco’s Cafe G3 / 814.455.8088 / 1001 State St. #106 22 19 51 2000 Habibiworkers, Mediterranean Cusine down from W 4th St E 4th St 23 I2 / 814.920.4756 / 127 W 14th St. 58 18,000Happy at Garden its height, all either EMBER+FORGE E3 / 814.452.4488 / 418 State St. 56 20 24 George 62 Hook’s Catfish Kitchen Carroll 65 Erie Art ExpERIEnce closedE2 or / 814.452.6739 continually / 38 N Park Row shed jobs House 25 24 Museum Children's Hookah Café 49 Museum I2 / 814.454.1055 / 129 W 14th St. 5 throughout26 the years. W 5th St 37 30 9 E 5th St Hungry Howies Pizza H2 / 814.464.0202 / 128 W 12th St. State St 27 10 Jekyll & Hyde’s Gastropub E 47 E 28 G3 / 814.456.0072 / 8 E 10th St. 38 Jimmy John's However,E3 / 814.315.9334 over / 515 State St. the past 29 25 32 64 13 15 53 1 29 North Park Row Jo's Brooklyn Bagel & Deli (Inside Lucky's Food Mart) decade,30 E3 / 814.454.7852the / city’s431 State St. downtown Erie Insurance Junior’s Last Laugh County 15 W 6th St E 6th St 31 I3 / 814.461.0911 / 1402 State St. Courthouse 21 has Khaobore Thai witness to the 32 E2 / 814.454.4069 / 36 N Park Row Gannon South Park Row expansionLavery Brewing of three remarkable University 33 H2 / 814.454.0405 / 128 W 12th St. Like My Thai 14 City Hall Federal anchorG3 / 814.455.1026institutions / 827 State St. that 34 W 7th St Building E 7th St McCoy's Barrelhouse & Grill F F form35 H3the / 814.454.4069 foundation / 1013 State St. of the McDonalds 13 36 H1 / 814.456.9906 / 1115 Sassafras St. 11 core’s McDonaldseconomy today—Erie E3 / 814.452.4406 / 430 State St. 37 W 8th St 59 E 8th St Molly Brannigans InsuranceE3 / 814.453.7800 (the / 506 State St.homegrown 38 Erie Insurance Mr. Sub Arena H3 / 814.454.0603 / 1017 State St. 17 Warner Fortune39 500 company), 1 2 Plymouth Tavern 42 Theater H3 / 814.453.6454 / 1109 State St. 40 W 9th St 34 E 9th St GannonRoom University,33 Speakeasy and UPMC 41 H3 / 814.636.5062 / 1033 State St Hamot.Rose GardenThe Cafe relocation of a G G 42 G3 / 814.864.3091 / 815 State St. UPMC Rum Runners Avalon Park homegrown43 A4 / 814.455.4292 / internet133 E Dobbins Landing service Hotel Shish Kabob Restaurant W 10th St 5 28 4 3 E 10th St provider44 H4 / 814.520.5620 to / 1202the French St.downtown Shoreline Grill 6 4 7 2220 3 12 Sassafras St Sassafras Erie German St Holland St 55 St French A1 / 814.240.7249 / 2 Sassafras Pier Myrtle St Renaissance Peach St Peach Playhouse 45 14 broughtSmuggler’s new Wharf light, as did the 35 8 Centre 16 B3 / 814.459.4273 / 3 State St.
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