Any suggestions on how town leaders can help businesses in town?

Toondah hardbour project, dual train carriage way, infrastructure and transport.
It's too late, the Coles and Woolworths centres have killed the main street. Bloomfield Street is no longer the CBD of Cleveland.
Somehow try to entice some businesses to stay open later than 2pm on a weekend.
Many of the specialty shops don't open until 9.30am. This is too late if you are wanting to attract parents / grandparents to shop after dropping children at
school. The state school is in walking distance and the high school with 2000 students is a few blocks away. There are lots of people around in
Cleveland, they are just not stopping in the Cleveland CBD. Many of the buildings are looking tired and lots of vacant shops too.
More parking!
Fix parking issues.
We need a variety of businesses, not just cafes and cheap tattoo shops. I meet up with friends for coffee once a week in the main street but other than
going to Woolworths or Coles I rarely think of popping into Cleveland if I need anything. The last time I did, around 3.30pm on a Saturday, it was like a
ghost town - everywhere was closed!
Victoria Point (Lakeland) and Wellington Point both look so much more appealing at evening with the fairy lights on the trees, but everywhere seems to
close too early.

Later trading hours

Find funding for an NFP group to run Renew Cleveland, instead of council trying to do it. Council's shouldn't run a project like this and it has been proved
- Renew has been a total failure in Cleveland.
Put in a Kmart, more cheap clothes stores or a second hand shop.
Allow longer trading, open some night markets and bring Cleveland back into the 21st century!
Fairy lights - wrap them and they will come. Fairy lights, warm white, wrapped around trees make for an inviting atmosphere at night time. Make sure you
go warm white as it is soft and romantic like candlelight. This will encourage people to go for a stroll in the evenings and go out for dinner or coffee or
families to go for an icecream.
Allow greater access to alfresco dining and especially at night. Allow the existing restaurants to go out past the markers and put more tables outside.
Also host more events in Bloomfield Street or the common area between the library and the Sands Hotel.
Mini playgrounds for little ones.
Shop fronts facia repaint, more plants and paved road sections. Make it more visually attractive so people want to explore the shops.
- More fashion shops for younger people.
- More health food cafes / takeaways, as in vegan gluten free etc.
- Fit out empty shops with kitchen basics
- Also maybe some smaller kiosk style shops to attract start-up businesses with lower rent overheads. Approach current Capalaba businesses to move.
- Art workshop spaces with several zones to rent to artists and to sell local art or run classes, possibly on the street where markets are open on market
day.
- Bookshop!
- A food co-op shop with bulk buying and recycling etc.
Encourage new businesses into vacant shops.
To be open later, especially Friday nights. The atmosphere in Cleveland is really dead after 5pm.
The market stalls need to flipped around, like they used to be. At the moment we are showing visitors a very bright street with no shade. If instead the
stalls were butting onto each other so visitors walked down one side and up the other, they would see the beautiful gardens, have shade from the trees,
be enchanted with all of the new linger points and it would create more interest with all of the businesses along Bloomfield Street. Can we also do
something about the old CBA bank? It's an eyesore.
Maybe a playground at Raby Bay?
Rent subsidies for businesses.
Not sure. Overall Cleveland itself is boring. There are too many coffee shops and the retail shops aren't any better. If you put in shops that aren't just for
the over 50's, you'd find more youth and younger adults happy to spend time and money there. The whole of Cleveland seems to be marketed at the
over 50's and its disappointing for those younger. The new 'park' they put in looks like a waste of money. Would have been better if a proper park for kids
and families to enjoy. More family orientated things should be put on. Yes farmers markets are OK. But proper fun things for families. Actually put some
effort into advertising what's on in Cleveland. I know there have been a lot of events my family would attended, but have heard or seen squat about it.
One flyer here and there just doesn't cut it.
Creating a "cultural precinct" surrounding RPAC and building a connection between local restaurants and the RPAC building. Hosting more free live
events and connecting with arts company's like ROCKIT Productions and HERE'S TO LIFE.
Too many hairdressers and coffee shops. We need a good men's wear shop (or two), implement a monthly mega day, similar to the Sun Markets but
shop owners also participate.
Fairy lights in trees for people to enjoy when dining at night
Get rid of daggy shops. More restaurants and cafes in heart of town, not at the marina
Pedestrianize from The Sands to Coffee Club and centralise this as a nice eating area. Eateries are too scattered across Cleveland. Have them open in
the evenings and create a link with Raby Bay by perhaps having a walkway
I love Cleveland, but I'm seriously put off because of the people that 'hang out' in the streets there. Some of the things I have seen and heard are enough
to put me off coming there more regularly. I also wonder if having just one large department store, whether it's Target, Kmart, Myer or another would be a
draw card to the area too. It's really the only thing that is missing.
Upgrade to 2017 by introducing the NBN so that businesses don't stagnate with terrible infrastructure. It's only going to get worse with the arrival of
Amazon.
Advertise more widely. Create dog friendly cafes and advertise!
Suggestion to have fairy lights on trunks of the trees at Raby Bay Harbour near Hogs Breath and up to the Library area to give an inviting ambience at
night. Wellington Point and Victoria Point have it, so why not Raby Bay. It will draw attention to these areas and not be in the dark. With our harbour,
showcase it to the fullest where people will want to return for the beauty as well as our restaurants etc. Old vacant bank building next to SDibb please
replace / fix the facade as it has looked disgusting for years - put a mural in front, something to hide the eyesore. Feel for the businesses who have this
next to them as its not attractive at all.
More nigt life. Bayside lacks entertainment and city is a long way to go.
Improve roads.
Any suggestions on how town leaders can help businesses in town?
Activate spaces. Hold unusual events that draw people in, close off the main street mid week, lay some fake turf, put in some seating spaces and have a
mid week lunch event near the local food outlets. Get people talking about the area. Do it on a Saturday even, extend the markets and bring in food stalls
or something. Collaborate with local businessew - I own a business that would love to connect with council and offer benefit to employees. Do you have
an internal newsletter that local business could gain space in? My business is a gym and I'd love to contribute health and wellness tips, free group
training sessions each week, etc. There's opportunity there for council to offer something beneficial to employees and for a business like mine to gain
exposure - I'm locally owned and run, I'm not a major chain, I already work with places like the council's animal shelter (our space was recently used to
photograph for their annual kitten calendar) to give back to my local area, I've lived here my whole life and it's a great community.
Add some late night lounges / bars and quirky vegan cafe's to attract a younger audience.
Don't build any more shops as we have enough already. What Cleveland has got to realise is that we already have a major retail centre just down the
road at Capalaba as well as Victoria Point.
Stop doing things for children as they do not spend money, but run around screeching causing people to leave the area, especially around the library.
Make the town an art centre where you can buy local art, open cafes later, more festivals and light up city centre.
Make an area for nightlife with more of an atmosphere, including increasing public transport in the evenings from other areas of the Redlands such as
Thornlands and improving parking.
Bring more businesses and a big department store movie theatre etc to Cleveland so we dont have to go out of the area for better shopping e.g.
Carindale. More choices to bring people to our area also.
Make Middle Street a pedestrian mall and build a footbridge from CBD to Raby Bay Harbour precinct
Create a mall and a small electric shuttle service from train station and ferry terminal to the mall with no cars entering mall.
Stop bowing down to people who resist progress, build Toondah Harbour.
Expand the variety of events.
Find out why empty offices have not been tenanted and try to find solutions to the problems. Encourage owners to let to small or home-based
businesses/creatives/non-profits over trial period on peppercorn rents - who knows, they might decide to become permanent tenants? Try to attract
marquee brands, not more cheap chain shops. All the high rise apartments being built down Middle and Shore streets should have been built in the
commercial heart, with cafes, shops and offices below.
Regular pop up kitchens like at Hamilton, start up innovation hub, organised activities for Cleveland District State High School students post school.
More car parking is needed!
Shut the place.
Better, more hip and modern restaurants.
Change the stalls at the markets. We have been here for nearly seven years and by god, the stalls at the markets haven't changed once.

Bike hire docking ports and bikes for hire using credit cards, late night bars, music and more buskers, street performance, comedy club and a bigger
fountain with lights and music in synchronicity. An open area cinema also.
Stop hitting them with parking fines - they have to be there all day.
Food truck markets on Friday nights and weekends. More parking areas for people coming to Cleveland from other areas.
I think the adult shop and tattoo shop are pretty unfortunately located. Perhaps they could be screened by planting or physical screens. I think they are
disruptive.
Longer or staggered opening hours to encourage people to go out after work. The CBD is a ghost town after 5pm.
Needs something to attract more families.
A fenced playground would bring more families in.
Have a look at the Resturant precinct in Wellington Point and also the Raby Bay setups - we need affordable prices and good service with a smile to
attract new customers.
Get rid of timed parking.
Cleveland needs cafes that are open of a night.
Pop-up food markets on Saturday evenings. Just like the Sunday morning markets, only on Saturday evenings with food stalls only.
Encourage business to open longer.
Cultural prescient hub that can house creative studios. Artists then can share resources, host open studios, markets. Studios offered to local creative's at
a low rental cost. Street Art festival, Toowoomba's First Coat festival is a shining example of how a community can be revitalised via such art and
festival. Both of these would bring more people into town and engage with local business. Along with building a stronger connection to the town.
Improve the approach to town. Stop removing vegetation and putting in concrete on roundabouts and road dividers. Remove the signage on Shore
Street and plant trees.

Although I am a local it would be great to have a 'Where is it?' touristy type map (not like a normal boring street directory but a graphic/pictorial map) that
showed you where to find all the different little areas and what you could find in them - sort of like a treasure hunt map or even an app where you could
capture something when you visit different locations.
1. Dress up Bloomfield Street i.e. paint the streetlamps and ageing paintwork especially the bus shelters in Middle Street.
2. Continue the blue theme for seats (as in makeover seats) by painting the rest of the seating.
3. Adding pots of flowers or colourful foliage outside shops would add to the ambience.
4. Add fairy lights to the Bloomfield Street children's park area near Penny Lane and add fairy lights to that end of Bloomfield Street also.
5. Add fairy lights to the library square.
6. Install a chess set or ping pong table in the Bloomfield Street children's park near Penny Lane.
7. Encourage more people to use the Library square perhaps by dancing groups etc.
8. Encourage more buskers on Bloomfield Street. All this could encourage people to interact and create a good community spirit while brightening up the
town.
9. Create a link to Raby Bay by way of a mural (perhaps painted on the steps leading down to the bay from the library). This would encourage visitors to
travel to both areas.
10. Last but not least, create a POINCIANA FESTIVAL during poinciana flowering time and kickstart the festival with marching bands with children's
dance groups etc marching along Bloomfield and Middle streets. If the Jacaranda Festival can work for Grafton, we in Cleveland can have a similar
festival, on a smaller scale if necessary. This would certainly be good for tourism and also encourage visitors to the town which should make the
retailers happy as well.
Install electric vehicle chargers, owners can shop / eat while waiting for their cars to charge
Supporting installation of electric vehicle charging stations would encourage E/V drivers to visit the township who in turn would support local business. A
forward thinking initiative requiring only a modest expenditure.