Neighborhoods aren\u2019t the only place kids can trick-or-treat this Halloween.<\/p>\n
The downtown corridor, in fact, is looking like the place to be, for kids looking for a surefire way to load up on treats.<\/p>\n
More than 50 businesses downtown will be welcoming trick-or-treaters this year, armed with candy and other treats and knickknacks at the door.<\/p>\n
Last year was the first year the businesses downtown coordinated to make Halloween happen for trick-or-treaters, and after such a huge success, they had to do it again this year, said Kindred Post owner Christy NaMee Eriksen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think that anybody, myself included, expected what was an enormous turnout last year,\u201d Eriksen said, saying some business owners ran out of candy. \u201cI think estimates had it around 2,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eriksen is the one who came up with the idea last year. She said she took her son, dressed as Darth Vadar, out trick-or-treating in the downtown business corridor in 2014 and was disappointed to find that they were the only ones, and that no one was passing out candy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like why? Why don\u2019t people come downtown? And that\u2019s kind of where the seed as planted,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
In 2015, she went door-to-door and asked neighboring businesses if they would hand out candy to trick-or-treaters, and they obliged.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey kind of humored me,\u201d Eriksen said.<\/p>\n
But the reception was huge, with tons of costumed kids and parents parading around downtown, filling up their plastic, orange pumpkins with candy.<\/p>\n
This year, she said businesses were eager to take part in the newfound tradition. She said she ran into several other business owners at Costco, stocking up on candy to make sure there\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are better prepared this year,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n
Eriksen noted that it\u2019s not about businesses making sales or trying to get customers in their stores \u2014 it\u2019s just about community spirit and bringing people together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love my neighborhood, and I love family time, and I love treats. So why not?\u201d<\/p>\n
Trick-or-treating downtown is taking place from 2-6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 31. Trick-or-treaters can look for orange balloons and a \u201cTrick-or-Treating Here\u201d sign on the doors of participating businesses.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a list of all of the participating businesses this year, thus far:<\/p>\n
Seward Street:<\/strong><\/p>\n Capital Copy (South Seward, next to City Hall)<\/p>\n Shoefly<\/p>\n The Rookery Cafe<\/p>\n Rainy Retreat Books<\/p>\n Lisa Davidson\u2019s Boutique<\/p>\n Wells Fargo<\/p>\n Subway<\/p>\n Nana\u2019s Attic<\/p>\n Downtown Dames<\/p>\n Art Sutch Photography<\/p>\n Canvas Arts<\/p>\n Pie in the Sky<\/p>\n Sequence AK<\/p>\n GCI<\/p>\n Northwind Architects<\/p>\n Little Tokyo<\/p>\n V\u2019s Cellar Door<\/p>\n The Coconut Thai Cuisine<\/p>\n Urban Eskimo<\/p>\n Pretty Please<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Front Street:<\/strong><\/p>\n Triangle Club (outside)<\/p>\n Hearthside Books<\/p>\n The Jewel Box<\/p>\n Annie Kaill\u2019s<\/p>\n Trickster Company<\/p>\n Alaska Democrats<\/p>\n Alaska Robotics<\/p>\n Sealaska Heritage<\/p>\n Juneau Drug<\/p>\n Heritage Cafe<\/p>\n Sketch Studio (behind Kenny\u2019s, entrance in parking lot)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Franklin Street:<\/strong><\/p>\n Red Dog Mercantile<\/p>\n Alaskan Brewing Co. Depot<\/p>\n Alaskan Fudge Co.<\/p>\n The Senate Building<\/p>\n Bear\u2019s Lair<\/p>\n Juneau Artist Gallery<\/p>\n Chef Stefs<\/p>\n La Boheme<\/p>\n Seaside Yarns<\/p>\n Fiddlehead & Ferns<\/p>\n Bustin\u2019 Out Boutique<\/p>\n Aurora Projekt<\/p>\n The Alaskan Hotel<\/p>\n El Sombrero<\/p>\n Mt Juneau Trading Post<\/p>\n Kindred Post<\/p>\n Midnight Sun Gifts<\/p>\n Rockwell<\/p>\n Island Sisters<\/p>\n Saffron<\/p>\n Foggy Mountain<\/p>\n Heritage Cafe<\/p>\n Baranof Hotel<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Second Street:<\/strong><\/p>\n Panhandle Provisions<\/p>\n In Bocca al Lupo<\/p>\n Silverbow Inn<\/p>\n Bauer\/Clifton Interiors<\/p>\n Lemon Tree Cafe<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fourth Street:<\/strong><\/p>\n Rainbow Foods<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marine Way:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Taqueria<\/p>\n For more information, contact Kindred Post at 523-5053 or hello@kindredpost.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neighborhoods aren\u2019t the only place kids can trick-or-treat this Halloween. The downtown corridor, in fact, is looking like the place to be, for kids looking for a surefire way to load up on treats. More than 50 businesses downtown will be welcoming trick-or-treaters this year, armed with candy and other treats and knickknacks at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":26060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26059"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}