Last December, Ridgefield Floral and Gifts was moving in at the busiest time of the year. The flower shop had spent more than ten years a few blocks east on Pioneer Street. It took over 104 N. Main Ave. after Ridgefield Hardware and Gift closed on September 30, 2025, ending a run of more than a century in that building. Co-owner Katie Burbank told The Reflector that the response from the community kept her going "because it's a very stressful move, especially at Christmas time, all the gifts, getting everybody situated."

This December the corner is no longer between owners. It's a working building with several businesses under one roof, and they keep different hours. Saturday, December 5 runs longer than any of those hours. Planning that day around the building's hours decides whether you see all of it or only half.

Who shares the corner now

Building owner Scott Hughes, whose family has held the property for generations, wanted to keep it local. Co-owners Kerry Rylander and Katie Burbank needed more room than their old Pioneer Street shop had. The bigger floor plan let the florist bring other small operations in alongside it. During the November 7 Wine Walk, Meanwhile in Ridgefield listed the building as Stop 6, with four hosts at one corner.

• Ridgefield Floral and Gifts is the anchor tenant. The owners told The Reflector they like the view toward the wildlife refuge from the new location.
• Raindrop Giftshop operates inside the florist's space.
• Spudder Spirit and Co. sells merchandise that supports the local boosters program. It's part of the Art Gallery and sits inside the florist's space.
• Ridgefield Art Gallery, in Suite 110, opened Saturday, January 3, 2026. It's an artist-run cooperative and the first permanent gallery space for the Ridgefield Art Association, which used to rely on pop-up shows around town.

Toys On Main has its own history here. Tara Nathan and her two daughters opened it on Small Business Saturday, the weekend after Thanksgiving, in a small space inside the former hardware store, focused on what Nathan calls "unplugged play," The Reflector reported in March. By mid-December 2025 its merchandise was already on sale in the building.

One counter, two clocks

The same Reflector story explains how the building works day to day. Ridgefield Floral handles transactions for Toys On Main during the work week, so Nathan doesn't need her own staff on the floor. As a result, the florist's posted hours set the hours for the shared retail space. The gallery runs on its own schedule.

The two schedules don't line up. On a weekday morning the flower counter is open and the gallery isn't yet. On a Sunday afternoon the gallery is open and the florist is closed. The only full overlap is weekday afternoons, Wednesday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. These are the posted regular hours, so check each business's own page for any holiday changes before you go.

Saturday, December 5, by the clock

The Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce's Holiday Stroll runs December 4 and 5. It covers downtown shopping and seasonal activities, and the Chamber says more details are coming. The Holiday Market on Bailey returns on the Saturday, with local makers, merchants and artisans, live music, pony rides and Santa. The same Saturday, the City's Hometown Celebration has a daytime festival and the annual tree lighting in the evening, with Santa, performances, a food and gift vendor market, and hay rides. The City calendar lists it from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Set those hours against the corner's posted schedule and the day looks like this:

1. 9 a.m. Hometown Celebration starts, and Ridgefield Floral and Gifts opens its doors.
2. 11 a.m. Ridgefield Art Gallery opens Suite 110.
3. 2 p.m. The florist's posted Saturday hours end.
4. 6 p.m. The gallery's posted hours end.
5. 7 p.m. Hometown Celebration wraps up its listed hours, with the tree lighting in the evening.

If you want the whole building, go between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. If you're coming downtown for the tree lighting, the gallery is the part of the corner that's still open on your way in.

A year ago the City's Hometown Celebration was on December 6, 2025, at Overlook Park, 113–131 S. Main Ave. Overlook Park was also the check-in point for this month's Wine Walk. The City calendar is the place to confirm this year's setup.

The two Saturdays before it

The gallery's November show closes before the Stroll. "Collective Nostalgia" features Eva Kelley with guest artist David Walden and runs November 4 through 29. Kelley is a Ridgefield Art Association board member and one of the gallery's managers. In January she told The Reflector that Clark County has "a lack of art spaces," which made the new gallery feel like a big step. Since the gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday, you can still see the show on the weekend of November 21 and over Thanksgiving weekend.

That weekend includes Small Business Saturday on November 28, the same day on the calendar that Toys On Main picked for its opening. It's also the last Saturday to see "Collective Nostalgia" before it closes the next day.

Raindrop's counter has already had a sneak preview of something coming downtown. During the Wine Walk, Whimsy Chocolates offered tastings at Raindrop Giftshop. Owner Pamela Wanous plans to take half of the former Juxtaposition space in Pioneer Village.

Getting to the corner

This is the first holiday weekend since the City finished its Downtown Parking Plan this past summer. Street crews repainted pavement markings to mark out parking spaces and improve sight lines at intersections. In August, a contractor converted N 4th Avenue to a one-way northbound street with angled parking, which fixed a sight-line problem and added parking in the downtown core. If you used to park on N 4th for downtown events, you now enter from the south.

Why this corner shows where downtown is heading

The hardware building is the most visible piece of a bigger change. In the City's newsletter, The Ridge, Mayor Matt Cole wrote that 20 new businesses opened downtown in the past year and that more than 40 community events drew people into the center of town. He listed the converted hardware store, now home to a florist, a toy store and an art gallery, among the year's changes. The same essay reports that the City finished a $2 million environmental cleanup on Main Avenue that prepares the Park Laundry property for redevelopment.

All of this falls under RISE, short for Revitalize, Invest, Sustain, Enhance, the downtown initiative the mayor announced in March. Its public outreach will include surveys, events and open calls for input. Clark County Today reported in July that the City planned to bring in consultants to update the downtown subarea plan while encouraging private investment. Holiday Stroll weekend is a good chance to see a finished example of what that plan is aiming for.

We follow changes like this one because they show how a downtown building can get a second life. If you're thinking about the next use for an older commercial building, or your own place near Main Avenue, Wings NW Real Estate would be glad to talk it through with you. Let's plan your next move together; schedule a strategy call.