{"id":13671,"date":"2020-11-06T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=13671"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:35:15","slug":"video-how-to-fill-empty-car-dealership-buildings-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2020\/11\/video-how-to-fill-empty-car-dealership-buildings-for-the-holidays.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: How to fill empty car dealership buildings for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Empty buildings during the holidays are a drag on local shopping<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>Who wants to shop downtown when it looks so empty?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Car dealerships are an especially tough type of building to fill. Not many businesses need such a large space, and the layout of the space can make it tough to find a good fit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can small towns do to fill the empty building when they don&#8217;t have a permanent business ready to move into it?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Filling Up Downtown for the Holidays: Empty Buildings and Decorating Windows\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dmlfmoVF158?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Call the car club for a holiday display.<\/h2>\n<h2>Not just dealership buildings<\/h2>\n<p>A car club display can work in more buildings than you think.<\/p>\n<p>Walk down the alley and look for big loading doors in any empty building:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Furniture stores<\/li>\n<li>Electrical shops<\/li>\n<li>Repair shops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, many downtown buildings started life as something very different from what they are now. You&#8217;d never suspect from looking at the storefront that my favorite women&#8217;s clothing store was once a bakery and has a huge delivery truck door in the back.<\/p>\n<h2>Real world example: Mt. Ayr, Iowa,<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_13672\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13672\" class=\"wp-image-13672 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Car-dealership-building-with-car-display.-Mt-Ayr-IA.-Photo-by-Deb-Brown-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Car-dealership-building-with-car-display.-Mt-Ayr-IA.-Photo-by-Deb-Brown-800x491.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Car-dealership-building-with-car-display.-Mt-Ayr-IA.-Photo-by-Deb-Brown-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Car-dealership-building-with-car-display.-Mt-Ayr-IA.-Photo-by-Deb-Brown-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Car-dealership-building-with-car-display.-Mt-Ayr-IA.-Photo-by-Deb-Brown-1536x943.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Car-dealership-building-with-car-display.-Mt-Ayr-IA.-Photo-by-Deb-Brown.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Car dealership building with car display. Mt. Ayr, Iowa. Photo by Deb Brown<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Deb Brown spotted this real world example in Mt. Ayr, Iowa. The dealership that used to be located here has moved to a different location closer to the highway. They still own this building downtown, but don&#8217;t use it for retail business. While they aren&#8217;t going to open the showroom for the holidays, they&#8217;ve put a race car in the display window.<\/p>\n<p>Since they don&#8217;t use the front offices now, they were leaving it dark in the evenings. But what a difference it makes to have the spot lights and the neon sign lit up in the evenings!<\/p>\n<h2>Turn it into an event venue<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Love this idea for your street, now add a coffee cart, some stools and a few tables&#8230; magic! Hey, why not add some Christmas parties in this unique venue?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenburgin.com.au\/\">Ken Burgin<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<h2>Learn more about the SaveYour.Town\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/learnto.saveyour.town\/filling-downtown-holidays\">video Filling Up Downtown for the Holidays<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>This is just one of the ideas we cover in our new video from <a href=\"https:\/\/learnto.saveyour.town\/filling-downtown-holidays\">SaveYour.Town Filling Up Downtown for the Holidays<\/a>. It&#8217;s just $5 and available for purchase only through November 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empty buildings during the holidays are a drag on local shopping Who wants to shop downtown when it looks so empty? Car dealerships are an especially tough type of building to fill. Not many businesses need such a large space, and the layout of the space can make it tough to find a good fit. 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