`Bounceback` grants help small businesses — like flower shops and martini bars — around the state fill previously empty storefronts

In the small northwestern Wisconsin city of Washburn, a bright red and yellow building was a familiar part of the main street.

For years, it was the local Dairy Queen, and then it became a Chinese restaurant. And then it sat empty for several years until October 2020, when David Sneed took a risk — in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic — and opened a fancy martini bar.

Sneed`s efforts recently received a modest boost from a Wisconsin Tomorrow Main Street Bounceback grant....
   ...more