Survey & Event, Rough Outlines - Feedback please :-)

Survey – Rough Outline

Dear Residents of Rivertown Lofts,

It has been nearly one year since the Light or Dark Convenience Store and Concierge Services opened our doors. Accordingly, we are planning a Celebration Event for October 29th so mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details.

The year has been filled with remarkable relationship building and learning focused on creating a more meaningful and connected experience for our residents at Rivertown Lofts. The information and feedback we have been able to gather through our many conversations is quietly bringing about a transformation with regards to our products and services.  Thank you for sharing!

Light or Dark would like to further adapt our products and services to more closely reflect your needs and wishes as a resident and we can’t do that alone. In return for your precious time spent filling out this short survey, we promise to use this knowledge to create more meaningful life and work enhancing opportunities and experiences for you.

Store & Services

If we were able to offer freshly made healthy food from mostly Michigan products, such as sandwiches, smoothies, salads, muffins, cookies, would this be something that you would enjoy? Do you have any favorites from these categories that may inform our consideration as we develop these product offerings?

We would like to offer more green products to you. Are there any that you currently use or some that you would like to see in the store?

What are your favorite Michigan Products?

We would like to create a gift and specialty shop ambiance for our store that supports local Detroit artists and manufacturers as much as possible. Are there any local artists or crafters whose products you would like to see in our store?

Are you aware of all of the services that are offered through Light or Dark? Are there any areas of your life that you could use an extra hand with?

Events

Would you be interested in more events being held at the lofts? If you have ideas, or themes that you have experienced as fun in the past, let us know!

If we were to partner with local restaurants to serve meals and drinks on designated nights in the community room, is this a service you would use? What are your favorite local restaurants?

Incubator

We are proposing to facilitate the development of a social-networked incubator vehicle for our multi-talented residents at the Lofts to provide for seamless connections to one another, sharing of assets, ideas, skills and resources culminating in refined personal and professional services. Does this sound like something that you might like to participate in?

Do you have any skills or talents that you would be interested in sharing via mentoring of a young person, or projects that you might include them in (job shadowing)? If so, could you briefly explain what they are?

Do you work with or volunteer your time with any community organizations in the surrounding area? If so, what is their mission and what areas are they in need of partnered help with?

Event Outline

October 29th, One Year Anniversary/Soft Launch of Incubator/Halloween Party

Create Collaborative Capacity (Comes before everything else)

• build a small group of intellectually bought in residents, get clear on talking points (as outlined on vision board, see blog - https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSorZ_I08sOWfheXHewvsTB7izXeM95G5496hQqlgf_NhTR6uhyv3RSp_TBfsOfIHo5yczd8l5z9xNKzb_ofAEqQhJU1ZyFViH9q0kdxvK_W5sOdKnjTWXjjXDk5Y509wDuEmp_Xwx9A/s1600/Vision+Board+-+Left+Side+1.jpg

• by August 25 send out survey, get feedback, engagement from residents in the creation of the party, see who is curious about the incubator (invite to blog)

• designate potential sponsors, partners in the event – wine and alcohol reps, food vendors etc.

• Think of interactivity that could take place at event, to create what the feel of the incubator might be, create a sense of wanting to remain connected

Create Design of Store

• With feedback from customers, create a plan for the revamping of the store that may be presented physically or in a 3D model that might show the vision at the party and give a timeline for its launch.

• Link new products that will be at store to event

Website/Social Media/Materials (consider all as potential digital media projects for students)

• Website & Social Media launch – (designate time in meetings in August and early September to focus on these elements specifically, work with Bernadette’s partner to build after design is conceptualized - begin October 1st)

• Invites, set date to send - October 1st?

• Fliers to be handed out at party, with links to network, introduction to new vision, store design and new services etc.