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Downtown Missoula Partnership marks 50 years as businesses and community stress resilience
Summary
At a City Club Missoula December forum, leaders from the Downtown Missoula Partnership celebrated five decades of downtown programming and investment, and Big Dipper founder Charlie Beaton reflected on three decades of small-business growth and challenges for new entrepreneurs.
City Club Missoula hosted a December forum spotlighting downtown successes and the challenges facing small businesses, where Downtown Missoula Partnership leaders and Big Dipper founder Charlie Beaton recounted decades of growth and urged community support for local entrepreneurs.
Kristen Sackett, marketing and events director for the Downtown Missoula Partnership, charted the Partnership's evolution from a 1975 merchants association into a coalition of the Missoula Downtown Association, the Downtown Business Improvement District and the Missoula Downtown Foundation. "As downtown goes, the rest of your community goes," Sackett said, arguing that events and place-making keep downtown vibrant. She cited long-running events such as Out to Lunch (started…
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