Welcome New Businesses!

Every year, Discover St. Johnsbury prepares a report compiling business changes within our downtown district. For the past few years, we've been happy to share record-breaking totals of new businesses, and 2023 was no exception.

Please join us in welcome the seventeen (!!!) new businesses who opened or relocated to St. Johnsbury's downtown last year:

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Blue Spruce Health
Central Mane Salon & Spa
Clay'n Around Pottery Studio 
Easter Seals Vermont
Evolve Massage Therapy
Momentum Business Solutions 
NEK Broadband
NEK Therapeutic & Educational Services
Northern Connections

Priscilla Foster Handmade
Rooted & Restored
The Rustic Chaos
Rural Edge
Umbrella 
Vermont Candle & Supply Co. 
Wandering Vine
Whiteout Solutions

Several of the these names may already be familiar to people in St. Johnsbury or the Northeast Kingdom, but are counted because they chose to move into the downtown from previous locations. This includes two large social service organizations who moved their headquarters onto Main Street, almost a dozen new service businesses, one retail shop, a restaurant, and two craft studios.

It's worth noting that the list does not include several who opened in 2023, but happen to be located outside of the official downtown district, like 98 Mill, Salon Ruelle, 4M Lavender, and more. While we can't count them among our downtown total, we're excited to welcome them to St. Johnsbury too!

Of course, there were some businesses who left us last year, with notable mention to Central Cafe, Pica Pica Filipino Cuisine, SMD Outdoors, Palmer's Dry Cleaning, and Walgreen's Pharmacy. However, even when counting closures and downsizes, St. Johnsbury can report some astonishing overall growth. Since the start of the pandemic, a NET of 34 new businesses, representing 110+ new employees, are working here in downtown St. J.

Discover St. Johnsbury compiles business and property statistics annually as part of our role as St. Johnsbury's designated downtown organization.