Consultant suggests ways to get more people to downtown Warren

WARREN — Build relationships with female shoppers and direct people to enter the downtown area along its most attractive routes two suggestions made by an Ohio State University Extension Service educator to the results of a survey of downtown business owners.

“Females to me are your greatest opportunity to fill in a gap,” said Sharon Strouse, who serves all of northeast Ohio for OSU.

The survey of 41 business owners, most of them retailers, was conducted last year by Main Street Warren, an association of downtown business owners.

OSU assisted with the survey, and Gregory Davis, associate professor, presented the results today at the Sunrise Inn.

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