Bring Your Business to Milford: Commercial Leasing Can Work for You
When you move into commercial property or office leases in the downtown Milford Business District, you’ll join our group of hard-working, successful business owners who have made the Village of Milford one of the premier downtowns in which to do business. Milford business owners are committed to the downtown business district and have successfully worked together to make it an attractive place for customers to spend their time and purchase needed goods and services. As a business owner interested in locating your jewelry store, clothing store, medical services, or other business to one of Michigan’s great downtowns—or in starting up your new business in a busy commercial center—you’ll be pleased and encouraged by the support you can get and the customer base you can tap into by locating your business in Downtown Milford.
Village of Milford Supports Local Businesses
As a Downtown Milford business owner, you can take advantage of the services and expertise offered by organizations such as the Milford Downtown Development Authority, the Milford Business Association, the Rotary Club of Milford, and the Huron Valley Chamber of Commerce. Our knowledgeable groups are ready to welcome you and provide a place for you to talk over ideas, get questions answered, and access resources to help your business grow. Our business support organizations regularly provide member business owners with:
Business promotion opportunities: Through the website of the Milford Downtown Development Authority, restaurants, shops, and other businesses are promoted to potential customers with the Restaurant Guide, Dining Guide, and Shopping Directory. In addition, downtown Milford Michigan is host to regularly planned events designed to draw crowds and increase foot traffic in the downtown business district.
Ideas and resources: Whether you attend regular meetings of our business coalitions or chat with fellow business owners over morning coffee at the downtown deli, expertise is readily available and generously shared. With our downtown Milford business owners, there’s no shortage of ideas, advice, fellowship, mutual support, and camaraderie.
Business toolkits: When it’s time to invest your hard-earned dollars into building your business, you can get help with strategic decisions in marketing, advertising, and promotion (Not sure about this. There is no existing “home” for this sort of specific advise. The only place I can think of is the Chamber’s link to Oakland County’s business assistance programs. Should we include the same links, then I think we can say this). Our Milford business support organizations can help you identify target markets and offer advice on signage and suggested layouts for ads. The expertise you need for your business decisions is just a phone call (or a short walk) away. (Also, should we include a discussion here with regard to our demographics pages? Or our market analysis?
Assistance: Within our business support networks, business owners can offer their expertise to help each other and make referrals for legal services, tax and accounting help, and other services. (Again, a Chamber resource)
Business district beautification: In recent years, downtown Milford has become one of the most walkable downtowns in Michigan, with pavement upgrades for streets and pedestrian areas and the installation of area signage—all under the auspices of the Milford Downtown Development Authority and the support of the other business coalitions. With attractive retail stores and offices, and the natural beauty of the Huron River, which runs through downtown Milford, you can surround your business with the charm of beautiful and historic downtown Milford—a very appealing place for doing business. In addition, the DDA annually invests in flowers, streetlights, landscaping and other beautification projects to physically enhance and improve the downtown area.
New development: With activities aimed at developing additional downtown properties and beautifying nearby parks, more businesses and residences are being added to the mix in Downtown Milford, expanding the goods and services offered and increasing the potential customer base and traffic for all businesses. Milford’s Downtown Development Authority, along with other business, residential, and historical groups, have recently supported these development activities, among others:
- Flat Iron building development
- TRW site development for mixed retail and housing opportunities, with the DDA actively pursuing a hotel on the site
- Restoration of the historical Art Deco-style Ford Powerhouse in downtown’s Central Park
- Milford Hike and Bike Trail through Milford’s Central Business District, linking the District to the ten’s of thousands of users of Kensington Metro Park, Island State Park and eventually Highland Recreation Area
Working closely with other business owners and with the local business support organizations, our downtown Milford business owners have been able to attract a steadily increasing number of customers to their business district. And with the projected upward growth in the population in Milford and the surrounding areas over the next decades, the prospects for your business in Downtown Milford Michigan are bright.
Downtown Retail Stores Draw Milford Shopping Customers
Downtown Milford shopping customers tell us they enjoy the ambiance of Milford’s quaint, appealing downtown—its historic buildings, its charm, its convenience, and its walkability. For our patrons, our efforts in support of the Meet Me in Milford promotion have boosted the number of shopping trips to the downtown business district (can’t quantify---should we have this in here if we do not have evidence that it has done this?), dinner dates in our award-winning dining establishments, and family trips to enjoy the town’s park and riverside recreation, topped off with a hot coffee on a snowy day or a refreshing ice cream sundae to keep the summer heat at bay.
Downtown Milford offers today’s shoppers and diners the best of yesterday’s charming towns—jewelers, art galleries, gift stores, and other unique, one-of-a kind retail stores and services packaged in a familiar lifescape (love this word. Is it correct? Or, did you mean “lifestyle”?) that combines shopping and dining with window shopping, walking, rounding corners, stopping to rest, having conversations, watching the ducks, pausing for hot tea or ice cold lemonade.
Milford-area patrons have the income levels that make it possible to keep downtown retail, dining, and services busy and the educational levels to appreciate and enjoy the unique offerings of a central business district in a lovely downtown location. Downtown Milford offers area patrons an enriching experience completely different from the mall or the big box retailers. For the discriminating business owner, locating your business in downtown Milford Michigan is an excellent investment in your future and in the continued rejuvenation of one of Michigan’s most charming downtowns.
Commercial Property Suited to All Business Types
If you are a small business owner, you have the opportunity to join a group of business owners who will support you and welcome your contributions to the success of the downtown shopping district. Downtown Milford hosts businesses that include:
| · jewelry stores |
· women’s clothing stores |
· restaurants |
| · art galleries |
· gift stores |
· legal services |
| · clothing stores |
· women’s business clothing |
· home furnishings (redundant) |
| · medical services |
· home furnishings stores |
· men’s clothing stores |
In downtown Milford, there’s commercial property for lease and Milford representatives ready to help you look at the commercial property listings and select the best site and floor plan for your business. When you bring your business to Milford, you’ll be joining the appealing mix of shops, restaurants, and services that downtown Milford has to offer.
Become a Downtown Milford Michigan Business Owner: You’ll Be Glad You Did
Our downtown Milford business owners have positioned their businesses in this unique location because they are convinced that the Central Business District’s downtown offers the best prospects for their future. With the district’s built-in historic charm, human-scale layout, natural appeal, and one-of-a kind retail opportunities, area patrons are offered the best kind of downtown shopping and dining experience.
When you bring your business to Milford, you’ll be welcomed by like-minded business owners committed to offering patrons a uniquely satisfying shopping and dining experience that will keep them coming back. Join the downtown Milford business owners. Become part of a hard-working, supportive, successful group who are driving the success of the Village of Milford Central Business District. You’ll be glad you did!
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