North Shore Boards to come to the Winnetka Metra station

A local Winnetka business that made waves last summer is ready to plunge into the city with a pop-up shop.

Winnetka -Freuhänder approved a temporary occupancy contract during their meeting on Tuesday, February 18, with which North Shore Boards, a local startup, can be operated from a part of the Winnetka Metra station.

North Shore Boards sells skateboards, snowboards, surfboards, paddleboards, kayaks and Winnetka topics, among other things. its website. Tim Ring Tim Ring in Winnetka debut in 2024 as a weekly provider on the Winnetka Farmers' Market.

Ring hoped to expand the business and to open a physical location in the village after a success and a strong model of the local interest during the market season, but he couldn't find a practical option to keep his vision for a stationary Mortar.

Ring was then associated with Liz Dechant, the coordinator of the economic development of Winnetka, to discuss the opening of a pop-up shop in part of a village rented by the village. The small room in the Metra station offered the almost perfect opportunity for the company's first location.

Place, place, place

The village of Winnetka currently has a rental contract with Union Pacific Railroad to manage the metra station in the 754 Elm St., said Dean during the meeting. Part of this agreement, added it, comprises an 800 square meter place in the southern end of the station.

Winnetka had rented the room from 1965 to 2021 to Zegeler Cleaners. But Zengeler moved out in February 2021 and referred to declining sales in Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2022, village officials then made an agreement with the Chamber of Commerce of Winnetka-Northfield-Glencoe to use this room for storage for Winnetka Farmers' Market from May to October.

However, the chamber does not use the room during the offseason of the market, so that the door remains open for further use in winter and early spring months.

“The success of the village when filling empty trade rooms means that pop-ups gave far fewer options-we have put together two and two,” said Dean when the trustee was met. “We combine a very interested and driven local entrepreneur who wants to open a retail pop-up with a bound room.”

Ring informed the advice that he was planning to open the pop-up shop six days a week. North Shore Boards will be around 200 square feet of a total of 800 square foot in the room, said Dean.

The approved agreement is for 86 days, according to Dechant, who has been added that popup agreements in Winnetka do not take longer than 90 days in a calendar year. The agreement is intended to end the day on which the proposed agreement of the chamber begins to use the room.

Entrepreneur history

North Shore Boards started “a ring and prayer” in June 2024, Ring said to the trustees and added that the business “tries to make the next jump”.

“At the end of the day I am really looking for a feeling of community,” he said. “We are in local possessions and operations. I would like to deal with the community, the parking district and the village. It is a great community and I just want to try to bring some fun and a little different in the community. ”

The village rod praised both the ring and the dechant for the “creative solution” in order to best use the room and give ring the opportunity to have a shop front.

“This is certainly a new concept,” said Treuänder Kim Handler. “I am glad that you tested it on the farmers' market. I think a popup is the perfect way to see how you can bring it to the next stage. I think it's a great idea. ”

The trustee Bridget Orsic added that the new business had “the right Winnetka vibe”.

Officials are also of the opinion that it is also another additional way to lend the area at the weekend.

“This is fantastic to activate this area,” said trustee Tina Dalman. “I think the more we can do to bring activities to the train station at the weekend is very great.”

North Shore Boards joins Hofherr Meat Co. as a new tenant in the Metra Station of Winnetka.

As reported by The data recordWinnetka -Freuhänder in November last year approved an agreement with which the famous local butcher operates a delicatess shop from part of the train station in the room where Café Fleurette was accommodated.

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