Modest but strategically placed, The Courtyard is home to a handful of small businesses, and may not be as popular as some of the more elaborate facilities that have sprung up around the city. The enterprises that populate the mini-mall have their own clientele, though the facility has not generated the hum customarily associated with similar types of spaces. Often, people who come and go do so primarily to utilize the commercial bank ATM facility located in one of its kiosks close the sidewalk on Robb Street.
Proprietor of The Courtyard David Yhann accepts the need to breathe new life into the facility to bring it much closer to the attention of the potentially sizeable clientele that walk or drive by every day. In his conversations with this newspaper he has, from time to time, floated ideas for doing so and it would seem as though a beginning is taking shape.
Starting Friday December 9, and for successive Fridays and Saturdays, The Courtyard will be both marketplace and stage.