{"id":249251,"date":"2023-04-27T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/?p=249251"},"modified":"2023-04-27T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:30:51","slug":"orillias-streets-alive-founder-ready-to-help-midland-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/orillias-streets-alive-founder-ready-to-help-midland-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Orillia’s Streets Alive founder ready to help Midland downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"

An event happening Thursday will try to tap into how to make Midland\u2019s downtown more vibrant.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Economic Development Corporation of North Simcoe (EDCNS), in partnership with Simcoe County, is offering\u00a0community presentations with Leslie Fournier and Gregg MacLachlan on Thursday at 5 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking place at the Midland Public Library, the event\u00a0is open to any business that would like to attend.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to the presentations, a small group from the BIA will joining Fournier and McLachlan, two \u201crenowned\u201d local business consultants, for a walkabout tour to “visualize the downtown\u2019s possibilities and opportunities.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The walkabout will be followed by community discussions from 5 to 7 p.m., where attendees will have the opportunity to share insights and ideas with\u00a0other members of the community.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fournier and McLachlan are well-known in the community for their expertise in business development and marketing.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey have helped numerous businesses in the area grow and succeed and are excited to share their knowledge and insights with attendees at the event,\u201d EDCNS wrote in a release.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fournier is the founder of Streets Alive, which has brought over a dozen exciting projects to the streets of Orilla and helped transform the small city into a tourism hot spot. McLachlan, meanwhile, is the founder of\u00a0 WorkCabin, Canada\u2019s premier location for conservation and environmental job postings.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTogether, Leslie and Gregg will be offering ideas for how we can boost curb appeal and marketing here in Midland,\u201d the organization noted.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To attend the event, participants are encouraged to register via the\u00a0Eventbrite<\/a>\u00a0link.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leslie Fournier and Gregg MacLachlan joining EDCNS event Thursday to ‘visualize the downtown\u2019s possibilities and opportunities’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,149,7,12,255,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249252,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249251\/revisions\/249252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}