Chamber, EDA cut ribbons at five locations

Photo by Robert Williams
Owners Heath and Laura Peterson cut the ribbon on Frazee’s first laundromat in over a decade at Lucky Bubble Thursday, Nov. 17, with mayor-elect Mark Flemmer and EDA member Ashley Renollet. Lucky Bubble is located on the parking lot side of Frazee Family Foods in a portion formerly owned by Daggett Truck Line.

By Robert Williams

Editor

Members of the Frazee Economic Development Authority, the Detroit Lakes Chamber of Commerce, mayor elect Mark Flemmer and others celebrated five new businesses which have opened up or moved to a new location downtown during 2022.

Business owners and employees held brief interviews with Hank Ludtke for TV3, along with a ribbon cutting ceremony at each location and presentations of the first dollar of business by the chamber Thursday, Nov. 17.

Stops included: the Palace Cafe, which changed ownership in August and opened back up in October; Frazee Fitness Center, which opened in May; Hive Nutrition, which opened in June in the former bowling alley before moving to its new location this week in the former Chic Shed Junque Boutique; Seip Drug, which changed locations from the downtown corner to the new retail building up the street, and Lucky Bubble, which opened in April on the backside of Frazee Family Foods.

Photos by Robert Williams
Pharmacist April Johnson stood in for owner Nathan Seip at the ribbon cutting ceremony in the new location at the Frazee downtown retail center Thursday morning.
Debbie and David Streiff, center, celebrate the ribbon cutting and first business dollar of the revamped Palace Cafe with members of the Detroit Lakes Chamber of Commerce and Frazee Economic Development Authority, along with mayor-elect Mark Flemmer.
Owner Brandi Latham, center, cuts the ribbon inside the new location of Hive Nutrition in the former Chic Shed Junque Boutique next door to the HIve’s former location in the old bowling alley.
Owner Todd Johnson cuts the ribbon inside the Frazee Fitness Center to celebrate the business opening back in May. The Fitness Center will soon be joined by Diego Da Costa’s Grappling Fight Team Frazee jiu jitsu studio which plans to open next to the fitness center in December.