[OMS_MANAGERS] trick or treat main street

[David Snider]

Hi Steve --

Sandy has been doing the Trick or Treat Trail for many years now.  It is
run by our Chamber of Commerce now rather than Sandy Main Street (which
sadly is no more), but participation is huge.  More than half of all
businesses in downtown Sandy participate now -- even some of those that are
normally closed on a Saturday have been opening up for the event.  It's a
great way to promote local business.  Last year we counted something like
1,600 kids participating -- this doesn't count parents or guardians....just
kids in costume.  We have a population of just over 11,000.

We view our event as primarily for local businesses -- we do have a few
businesses that have outside vendors that come and "help" them hand out
candy and promotional stuff -- but it's only a handful, and we don't really
allow businesses from outside Sandy to come in and set up shop for this
event.  The reason is that this event is primarily a *retail/service
business awareness event*, in that we are trying to show locals what stores
we have downtown so they don't feel like they have to drive to Gresham or
Portland (nothing against those two cities, of course!) to do their
shopping when we have stores downtown that they might not know about.  You
might think that the locals already know what is in their downtown, but we
are constantly surprised by how many do not know.  For instance, we have a
"new" meat market downtown that has been in business for more than a year
(opened August 2017), and they still get multiple customers *every day*
that say "I had no idea you were here!", even though they literally drive
by the store every day on their way to work.  Dolly's Pet Shop moved from
one downtown location to another one literally two blocks away on the same
street, and she still gets one or two a month that say "I thought you went
out of business years ago!" or "When did you decide to open up shop
again!"  She moved over 4 years ago.  :)

As to religious or political organizations....any business or org downtown
is welcome to participate.  Some of our churches and most of our
non-profits do.  One of our biggest and most flamboyant participants is the
local gun retailer.  We've never had any problems with proselytizing or
other inappropriate behavior that I know of.  And it keep growing every
year.

Hope that helps!  Good luck!

* -- David C. Snider*
*Economic Development Manager*
*City of Sandy*
*39250 Pioneer Boulevard*
*Sandy, OR  97055*
*(503) 489-2159*
*dsnider at ci.sandy.or.us <dsnider at ci.sandy.or.us>*



On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:50 PM <steve at cateringbydeangelos.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> Each year on Halloween, our organization promotes though the schools Trick
> or Treat Main Street. We capture about 2000 children with parents.
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> Most Main Street Vendors participate by giving out snacks or candy. Some
> may do some low level marketing as well
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> Each year we are approached by outside organizations wanting to hand out
> candy and or information.
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> If you do this type of event- do you have any policies on such outside
> vendors??
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> Religious OK? (church youth groups)
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> Political (School district Bond levy)?
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> Must be child centric?
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> One concept we have kicked around is to create “sponsors” and include
> space for a 10x10 tent- That being said, what’s 2 hours of exposure worth…
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> Any & all information is useful!
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> TIA-Steve
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> Best,
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> Steve DeAngelo
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> Tigard Downtown Alliance President
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> DeAngelo’s Catering & Events
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> 9037 SW Burnham Street
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> Tigard, Or 97223
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> 503-620-9020
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> http://exploredowntowntigard.com/
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> https://www.facebook.com/ExploreDowntownTigard
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