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How to Support Your Favorite Local Businesses

Customer support is crucial to any successful business, but there are a number of ways that you can support your favorite local business without even spending a dime.

  1. “Like” their Facebook page and “follow” their Instagram account. It’s a simple way to keep up with their events, products and news, and helps their business continue to build their audience and find potential new customers.
  2. Engage with their social media posts by liking their posts, commenting, and sharing. Not only do the businesses appreciate your interaction, the engagement helps their pages get seen by others who don’t follow them. More followers = more business.
  3. Leave their business a review on their facebook page, Yelp or Google. People read reviews, and good reviews are golden, and also help the business come up more during web searches.
  4. Share the business in a local group, whether it be a Moms’ facebook group or your favorite town page.
  5. Shop local. The small businesses in town are also the ones saying yes when you ask them to support the local sports teams or donate to your school’s Tricky Tray. And they say yes, because it’s THEIR community too. By you continuing to support them, they can continue to support you and the community.
  6. Give referrals. Word of mouth is a powerful tool, it always has been. When you see someone asking for your favorite place to buy something, give a shout out to your favorite local store and be sure to tag their facebook page while doing so.
  7. Drop them a note and tell them why you love them. Whether it’s a retail, restaurant, or service business, being a business owner in general is challenging, and a few words of encouragement or support can literally make their day. If you didn’t get one of our new Downtown Denville postcards, get in touch and we’ll get you one. They’re a great way to drop a love note in the mail to your favorite downtown business.

Event: Denville After Dark {6/26}

Downtown Denville has been hard at work behind-the-scenes to plan a fun and safe outdoor event downtown, designed to bring the community together (while we stay socially and physically distant ofc!) and enjoy live music, a mini classic car collection, outdoor dining, retail sales, and more.

Please join us this Friday night, from 5-9 pm, as we close down Broadway from top to bottom and open it up to pedestrian foot traffic only.

Many of our retailers will be staying open later than usual, and will be putting tables out on the sidewalks to showcase their wares.

Outdoor dining available at several downtown restaurants, including The Second Half, Mara’s, Beignets, The Pasta Shop, The Tuscan Table, Thatchers, Denville Seafood, Hunan Taste, and more, and additional seating by way of hi tops and picnic tables will be placed down the center of Broadway. Additionally we still have parklets with picnic tables for overflow seating for your take-out orders down along the new stone wall at First Avenue, the area in front of A&R Interior Design, and in McCarter Park, across from Denville Dog and Il Torrente.

You will be able to check out a small collection of classic cars (and meet their owners!) in the Denville Hardware parking lot from 6 pm on.

Denville’s own KickStart band will be playing live in front of A&R Interior Design, also from 6-9 pm.

The street will be closed off from 5-9 pm, so we encourage and invite you to come down, eat and shop local, and enjoy gorgeous summer weather … all while following the state’s requirements of wearing masks and practicing social and physical distancing, please. Hand sanitizers will be located on the various tables around downtown and portable ADA-compliant restrooms will also be located on Broadway.

Thank you for continuing to support our downtown businesses and Downtown Denville events – see you Friday night!

Holiday Shopping Open House

Presented by Saint Francis Residential Community. Support Your Downtown !

Our Holiday Shopping Open House will be Friday, November 29th 5:30-8:30pm. Come out and support your local businesses while enjoying tons of holiday activities

(Broadway will be open to vehicle traffic but Denville’s Finest will be present to keep everyone safe at crosswalks and throughout downtown. Second and Third Avenue will be closed to vehicle traffic for our Horse and Carriage Rides and Center Street will be pedestrian only for our live performances)

HORSE & CARRIAGE RIDES – (Second and Broadway) Ride our Holiday Carriage along Second and Third Avenue and you might get serenaded from our Holiday carolers

PICTURES WITH SANTA – (Lakeland Bank) The big guy is making a brief appearance before he officially arrives at Santa Land in our Holiday Parade on Sunday, Dec 1st. This is your chance to grab a pic

STORYTIME WITH MRS. CLAUS – (Lakeland Bank) Right across from Santa you can hear a story from Mrs. Clause while you wait

STORE SPECIALS – (All throughout downtown) Get a preview of Small Business Saturday on Nov 30th by stopping in your favorite shops the night before. Many will have specials, activities and promotions.

ELSA, OLAF & THE GRINCH – (All throughout Downtown) Our holiday characters will be roaming around for you to grab a picture and say hello. Don’t forget to hashtag #downtowndenville on your social media pics !

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

HOLIDAY CAROLERS (All throughout downtown) We’ll have our holiday carolers strolling our beautiful downtown sidewalks ready to serenade you

LIVE ON CENTER STREET – (Center Street) Perfomances all night hosted by Denville’s own Michael Scannelli. 5:30 pm – Danceworks, 6:15pm -Morris Hills Madrigal Choir under the direction of Mrs. Michelle Uhler, 7:00pm – The Great Scott Magic Show, 7:45pm Ronin Martial Arts – Weapons and Board Breaking Team

WARM-UP MENUS – (All throughout downtown) Many eateries will feature “warm-up” menus. Thatcher’s will have 21 & Over Adult Hot Cocoa and Irish Coffee for those who brave the cold in their outdoor seating areas

MAKE YOUR OWN STOCKING/HAT (The Urban Muse) Decorate your own Santa hat or holiday stocking

MISS NORTH JERSEY (SmartWorld) Come say “hello” and grab a pic with Miss North Jersey, Veronica Tullo, who will be handing out candy canes and collecting toys for the Children’s Miracle Network

TOY COLLECTION (SmartWorld). Donate new toys to the Children’s Miracle Network until Dec. 15th

FREE COOKIES (Official Downtown Denville Tables). Look for our official Downtown Denville tables and show us your Hot Cocoa (purchased from a Downtown Denville business) and we’ll give you a free cookie. We’ll also have hand warmers

WARMING STATIONS (Various) We’ll have several portable heaters for you to warm up near

FREE POPCORN (California Beach Hut) Check out CBH’s new location and grab some warm popcorn

FREE CLAM CHOWDER (Denville Seafood) It wouldn’t be a Holiday Open House without Denville Seafood giving out samples of their chowda to keep you warm

VENDOR TABLES (Various) Check out other great Denville businesses at their tables

MUSIC IN THE AIR (All throughout downtown) It wouldn’t be a Downtown Denville event without music scoring our event through our sidewalk sound system. And listen for announcements and guests joining our MC, Gene Fitzpatrick

AND SO MUCH MORE !!!

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NJ and National Main Street

We had the privilege of having our friends from New Jersey’s Main Street program, as well as the National program, join us Friday October 25th. The organizations have worked with us to identify ways to improve our downtown even more with grant identification, marketing tools and recommendations to satisfy community needs. With their help we recently conducted a study from residents about what their vision for Downtown Denville was.

The program representatives lead focus groups with township officials, store owners and more. There are many transformational grants available to help support downtowns progressing forward. We hope to be able to implement them soon based on the results of the surveys and focus groups they lead.