The City of Oberlin has brought in Downtown Strategies, Inc. to help create a strategy for post-pandemic development of the downtown area. Downtown Strategies will present actionable solutions that downtown Oberlin can implement in the next five years.
Oberlin’s downtown was at its height in the 1940s and ’50s, a time period which Liz Burgess, OC ’73, owner of Ginko Gallery, remembers fondly.
“Downtown used to be where the entire community came,” Burgess said. “It was a community center.”