Informal Poll of Downtown Businesses Raises Serious Questions About Grass Valley’s Retail Focus Group Report
By Don Pelton Our friend, Deni Draper-Silberstein, went to the one public meeting set up to discuss the Retail Focus Group Report commissioned by the Grass Valley City Council and conducted by Chabin Concepts, Inc. The City approved this $7500 study in order to determine local shopping patterns and preferences and apparently to gauge the reaction…