BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Eastchester consignment store known as In Your Wildest Dreams is moving to F Street. Unremarkable news, to be sure. Funny, though, how one store’s movement can set the dominoes into motion and change things all throughout downtown Bakersfield.
A couple of changes of address, or ownership, or purpose, can set imaginations, and business plans, on a dramatic new course when it comes to the personality of a city’s downtown core.
In Your Wildest Dreams, the quaint little consignment shop on 19th Street which is in the process of moving, is an example. It soft-opens in a couple of weeks with the grand opening set for Dec. 3. Owner Dixie Brewer is jazzed.
“We’re all excited about the future,” she said. “All the new developers and stuff that are coming in are really building it up. We’ve got some good money people coming in downtown creating some new retail downtown, some…