PERRYSBURG, Ohio — The RiverFront Candle Co. in downtown Perrysburg sits smack-dab in the center of the town’s Specified Outdoor Refreshment Space (DORA.)

In 2021, as component of a demo operate, people today in town have been able to go in the location with an grownup beverage in hand.

The candle company’s owner, Julie Olzka, stated it was the best mix.

“People can appear in and build their personal candles. They arrive up with a recipe. They sit at the bar, they mix, pour it into their wax. They hold out 90 minutes,” Olzak mentioned. “So, most of the time, that’s when people today are going with their consume and they can walk all around, window shop, go on to another retail store. They can go to a cafe and then they occur back again after 90 minutes and pick up their candles.”

So even although her shop does not promote beverages, Olzka explained that DORA advantages the organization local community by sharing consumers, in a perception. 

Immediately across from the shop, the proprietor of Zingo’s Cafe is an additional enthusiast of DORA.

While she did not want to go on digital camera to converse about the enlargement, she recalled a team of gals coming more than to grab beverages and then heading back to the candle shop with beverages in hand. The notion of increasing Perrysburg’s DORA just can make sense, she mentioned.

“It can be a optimistic,” Olzak reported. “Yeah, it is been excellent for us and we are hoping that whoever it goes on to include it operates the similar way.”

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