PROJECTS THE COMMUNITY CAN & SHOULD DO
(see above for specific businesses or services that would increase appeal to visitors)
- Remove the eye-sores in the downtown area
- Open a gas station with service that is special (wash windshield, check oil & tires)
- Bakery &/or Pan Amore outlet (esp for their day-old products)
- Soda fountain (old fashioned) / ice cream parlor (in collaboration with Peninsula Mkt)
- Holiday lighting for the downtown – make it fancy
- Repaint the town with a uniform color scheme
- Improve all the building facades
- Give a “Quilcene character” to everything we do (reflective of our community theme)
- Landscape public areas, building entrances & empty spaces
- Reopen the Whistling Oyster (as a micro-brewery?)
- 12-mo. Farmers Market (in partnership with Chimacum Market?)
- Better communication to everyone, e.g. 4x6” card listing events
- Consolidated local web site to sell handmade products – knitted, woodwork, etc.
- Quilcene Gift Certificate that all stores will honor
- Expand the medical clinic hours & services
- Rx delivery
- Cooperative buying to save trips
- Collaboration on PFI orders
- Form a Work Group to concentrate on community promotion
- Establish a community identity, a uniform theme, what Quilcene wants to be “known for”
- Form a community corporation
- Get 501 (c) (3) designation from the feds
