11 Days Left To Submit Your Ideas To Help Support Myrtle Avenue Businesses

How do you show your support for local and small businesses in the neighborhood? There’s choosing to shop there, of course, but is there anything else that you think would help?

So far, you have proposed 41 different ideas with that goal in mind for how to support Myrtle Avenue businesses. They range from creating “Shop Local” flyers, T-shirts and events calendars to post along the shopping corridor and encouraging business owners to give customers high fives, to partnering with local schools to beautify construction fences with children’s artwork (wrapped in plastic to protect it from the elements) and hosting street fairs

The ideas are part of a crowdsourced online list over on Ideaful, a Brooklyn startup that lets organizations create “idea challenges” for their community to give input on and then vote on during a set voting period — kind of like a Kickstarter for the exchange of ideas instead of money and physical products.

Entitled “How To Get More People To Shop Local At Businesses (In The Myrtle Avenue Plaza Construction Zone),” the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (MABP) created this challenge in an effort to engage residents in the continued success of Myrtle Avenue businesses during construction of the plaza, as was first reported by Technically Brooklyn.

The challenge has 11 days left for residents to submit ideas and cast votes.

Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership supports over 160 local businesses in Clinton Hill & Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The construction of the upcoming Myrtle Avenue Plaza (between Hall & Emerson) will affect the pedestrian experience for approximately 18 months. What are some ideas to encourage residents and students to support the 60 affected local businesses during this critical time?

“The upcoming Myrtle Avenue Plaza will be great for the Clinton Hill and Fort Greene area in the long term,” explained MABP on the challenge page. “The construction, however, may be disruptive to local businesses in the short term. Many of these local businesses along Myrtle Avenue have been around for decades, and help to make this area of Brooklyn unique. . .Your ideas will help Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership to support local business retention. Thank you so much for your thoughtful contributions!”

As noted by Technically Brooklyn, there is also an Ideaful challenge for input as to “How To Get More Pedestrian Traffic From the Barclays Center Onto 5th Avenue In Park Slope,” created by the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District. That challenge has three days left for input and votes.