Ilana Preuss: Saving Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing

<p>When you’ve got a friend or family member visiting you from out of town, where do you take that person? After you’ve said your hellos and they’ve dropped off their bags, where is the fun place you head to show them what your community is all about? Is it, by chance, a brewery, or the farmers market stand with the homemade cheese and sausage, or maybe it’s a cute jewelry shop on main street that makes all their own stuff…  </p> <p>There’s something about a locally-crafted food or good that just instills in us a pride for...