retail

Successful style show gets spring sequel on May 8

May 1, 2019

A fall style show put on by Lake City clothing retailers last year was so well-received that they’ve decided to do a spring one. “It was really a hit last fall, and The Jewel did a wonderful job on the appetizers,” said Mary Jane Rasmussen of Lake Pepin Pearl Button Company. “We had requests from...

Lavender Lane now open on Lyon Avenue

Aug 1, 2018

A long-time downtown Lake City clothing retailer is open in a new location with a new name. Almost on the Corner Closet has moved from Center Street to 104 E. Lyon Avenue, where it is once again next door to the Lake City Chamber of Commerce. The shop is now called Lavender Lane. The new name is a...

New women's clothing store coming to downtown Lake City

Feb 28, 2018

105 Boutique, a retailer of “urban chic” women’s clothing is already open online. And soon it will have a brick-and-mortar presence in downtown Lake City. Katie Kruse and her co-owner and fiancee Chad Sweitzer purchased the building at 105 S. Lakeshore Dr. in November. The business, named after...

Lake Pepin Pearl Button Company founders retire

Nov 9, 2017

Decades. That’s how long Lora Schwartz and Rene Lawson had their eye on the building at 226 S. Washington Street in Lake City. It wasn’t much to look at. Though it once had been an auto garage, button manufacturing plant, and a poultry retailer, when Lawson and Schwartz first encountered the...

New partners go vintage with Frontanac's Camilla and Me

May 11, 2017

A mother-daughter team is behind Frontenac Station’s latest retail business venture, Camilla and Me. Camee Dugstad is “Camilla” and her mother, Cindee Dugstad, is “me,” and together they sell antiques, furniture, clothing and new and vintage jewelry at 33861 Hwy. 61 Blvd. in Frontenac. The name...

'Picker's paradise' pops up in downtown Lake City

Apr 26, 2017

It has often been said that “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Jenny’s Treasures, a recently opened store on West Lyon Avenue in Lake City, is doing its part to lend truth to that saying, by giving items that otherwise might have been thrown away another chance at usefulness. Andrea...

New sporting goods store opens Nov. 5

Nov 2, 2016

Andrew Eggenberger, Staff Writer A Rochester bait shop is changing its name, expanding its products and services and relocating to downtown Lake City. Breakwall Outfitters, formerly Hooked on Fishing, opens its 3,000 square foot location at 116 S. Franklin St. at 6 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5....

New shop is owner's fun daytime getaway

May 4, 2016

Darla Meyer’s day job is really a night job. She cleans during the night. She runs D and M Cleaning, a commercial company that does overnight commercial cleaning for several businesses in the Rochester area. The company employs between five and 20 people depending on demand. That leaves her...

International firm goes local

Feb 17, 2016

Automation Services, Inc., (ASI) has been manufacturing robotic equipment, municipal water system controls, automated machine controls and conveyor controls and shipping them around the world for 20 years. But as the industrial economy continues to stagnate, the Lake City company is expanding on a...