Fisher’s company had been looking for a good location. He called the plaza site “great.”
“There’s lots of traffic and visibility as well as parking,” Fisher said.
Business on Tuesday, the day after most businesses and organizations recognized the New Year’s holiday, was a little busier than expected.
“Usually we do a soft opening first, so we didn’t advertise a lot yet and our grand opening is in about two weeks,” he said.
Good early returns for any Sunbury business evokes a smile from Mayor David Persing.
“Any new business is important for multiple reasons,” he said. “You’re always trying to recruit new businesses, but it’s also important to retain businesses.”
Persing said when somebody wants to invest in Sunbury they want to see other businesses thriving and see the city government doing things to keep them going, calling it a steamroller affect.
While an ailment kept Persing from visiting on opening day, he plans to visit Majik soon.
“I want to be able to say (to new business owners) ‘how can we help you?'” he said. “How can we work together to maintain the business?”
Persing cited recruiting live events like sports tournaments — which bring an influx of customers to area restaurants and coffee shops — as one example of how the city can help businesses.
Persing said filling a large commercial vacancy like Majik’s is particularly difficult.
“In smaller spaces you can easily change some structure around,” he said. “But bigger ones are harder to fill. Just because of the size alone you have to talk about things like cost of heating.”
Majik’s Sunbury store has four full-time employees, but the company is looking to add some more, Fisher said.
It is the company’s 10th store. A store in the Silver Moon Plaza in Lewisburg has been open for about a year. The company’s oldest store, in Stonemill Plaza in Lancaster, is celebrating its 30th year.
Source: The Daily Item 
