| Survey Results |
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Summaries (pie and bar charts) |
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Response to the open-ended questions at the end of the survey:
What stores would you like seen brought to Palo Alto
Additional comments about shopping/buying habits or concerns about retail in Palo Alto
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Notes from Meeting |
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Comments and Questions from audience |
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Retail Forum Summary |
Agenda |
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Welcome, Introductions, Overview of event |
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Panelist commentary
Participants:
-- Annette Ashton, President of Midtown Residents' Association
-- Vicky Ching, Ming's (restauranteur)
-- Bob and Lynn Davidson, California Paint & Wallpaper (long established business on California Avenue
-- Lin Miller, Retail West (real estate issues for location of retail)
-- Nickie Nasr, Harmony Bakery (small business that recently had to relocate)
-- Steve Schaper, former owner of Stanford Nissan
-- Pat Burt and Karen Holman, Planning and Transportation Commission
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Comments from business owners from the floor |
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Questions and answers from the floor.
Initial questions were submitted on cards to a moderator who combined related questions and directed them to
the panelists.
Additional questions directly from the floor. |
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Closing; collection of exit survey |
Background Information |
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Guest Opinion: The forgotten role of 'services' in the growth equation by Doug Moran
in the Wednesday, July 02, 2003 edition of the Palo Alto Weekly. |
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Guest Opinion: A rare window to improve Palo Alto's retail-service vitality by Karen White
in the Wednesday, July 09, 2003 edition of the Palo Alto Weekly. |
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City Should Recruit Stores by Diana Diamond
in the Sunday July 13, 2003 edition of the Palo Alto Daily News (PDF) |
Announcements / Press Releases |
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