By Madelyn Braho · Staff Writer
Prepare for a busy Broad Street: Oktoberfest is arriving in Grove City next week. Local businesses will be open for a community day on Friday evening.
This will be the third year Broad Street has held an Oktoberfest event. It is organized by Heather Blanchard, owner and operator of D’Licious Bouquets.
All local businesses on the street are welcome to participate. The storefront beside Precision Cuts, opposite the Guthrie, will host the Smiling Moose Distillery.
The street will remain open, except for a small portion of East Pine, which will be a children’s area. Bookends Bookstore will host free pumpkin painting, and there will be a racecar and a firetruck on display.
Sponsors include Saxony House Furniture, Joden’s Jewelry, D’Licious Bouquets and Bookends.
Treebeard Brown, a local band composed mostly of teachers from Grove City High School, will be performing in the gazebo near Coffaro’s at 6 p.m.
Blanchard also organizes Light Up Night with Santa in December as a way to bring some attention to Broad Street. “Our downtown is charming and cute, but a lot of us are struggling,” she explained.
Her business is one of the longer-running ones now: She has been open since 2014. Her hope is that having these events will help bring people, especially college students, downtown.
The past two years have been very successful, according to Blanchard. “At one point you couldn’t even walk down the street with how full it was,” she said.
Oktoberfest will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3 on Broad Street.
