Tuesday January 24, 6pm at Wolfgang’s
2012 EBA Annual Meeting
Social Media…Embrace It
Listen to a former retailer discuss the importance of social media to your business. Kristine Szurna Bersche, owner of the former Green Life Market, will discuss how tools like Facebook can change the way you communicate with your customers.

- Smitty’s Specialty Beverage is reopened and looking good!
- Harmony Brewing Company and Striders plan to open in December.
- Uptown Kitchen, Allegro Coaching and Icapsa Books are scheduled to open in January.
- Renewal Body Bootcamp opened in November.
- So did The Local Epicurean where Mystic Mill used to be.
- East Star Exchange closed in November. Not sure if they relocated…
- Do you know something else? Let us know through http://www.eastowngr.com/index.php/contact/contact/

December 2011 EBA News
It’s time to join or renew your membership to the EBA. The 2012 Membership Form is available on our website
http://www.eastowngr.com/pdf/EBA2012MembershipApplication.pdf
Not sure why it’s important to join the EBA? Come to the 2012 EBA Annual Meeting on
Tuesday, January 24 and find out! Want to know before then, contact us at
http://www.eastowngr.com/index.php/contact/contact/
The EBA Directory is currently being updated. NOW is the time to make sure we have the correct information about your business (address, phone number, website, email).  You can view the most up to date information that we have on your website profile.  Please send updates to http://www.eastowngr.com/index.php/contact/contact/

- Smitty’s Specialty Beverage is reopened and looking good!
- Harmony Brewing Company and Striders plan to open in December.
- Uptown Kitchen, Allegro Coaching and Icapsa Books are scheduled to open in January.
- Renewal Body Bootcamp opened in November.
- So did The Local Epicurean where Mystic Mill used to be.
- East Star Exchange closed in November. Not sure if they relocated…
- Do you know something else? Let us know through http://www.eastowngr.com/index.php/contact/contact/

Saturday, December 3
Holly Jolly, downtown retail event, will expand to include businesses in Uptown, East Grand Rapids and Breton Village. A trolley will take shoppers to and from the business districts.
http://grcentral.wzzm13.com/news/arts-culture/64095-hollyjolly-new-retail-focused-holiday-event-make-its-debut-december-2