Mill Valley Market
As Blithedale Project Continues, We Keep Ramping Up Our Support For downtown Businesses & Nonprofits – Check Out Our New Signs Reminding You to #ShopMV!
Earlier this year, we created – with generous design assistance from Poet and/the Bench and the support of the City of Mill Valley – an array of banners, both on Miller Ave. and on the Depot Plaza, to urge residents and guests to support the people that serve as backbone of our community. Now we’re deploying some signs around town to do the same.
Read MoreScintillating Live Music + Fashion Show + Beer Garden to Benefit Kiddo! = Larry the Hat’s Community Block Party – Sept. 25
On Sunday, Sept. 25 from 1-6pm, Larry the Hat’s “Mill Valley Community Block Party” once again takes over the block of Miller Ave. between Throckmorton and Sunnyside avenues, with the Depot Plaza used for kids activities.
Read MoreMill Valley Market Rolls Out Welcoming Outdoor Furniture
Some of those Downtown Project’s bulb-outs were large enough to create more outdoor sidewalk space, particularly for the venerable Mill Valley Market at 12 Corte Madera Avenue. The market’s leadership recently placed a welcoming array of outdoor gathering spaces.
Read More2022-23 EMV Guide: Member Directory
The Mill Valley Chamber has nearly 400 members, including an array of arts & culture organizations, restaurants, retail shops, nonprofits, financial services, real estate, health & wellness, automotive, lodging, consumer and professional services and much more.
Read MoreSupport Downtown & Miller Ave. Businesses Amidst Blithedale Project!
We encourage you to regularly check the City’s timely, informative Blithedale Project page to see when and where work is occurring, and to make plans to support our local businesses and nonprofits. We all need to them to be around long after this project is complete!
Read MoreFacing a Covid-Fueled Parking Deficit, Council Green Lights a Series of Rate Increases to Modernize and Increase Turnover
The council authorized the purchase of Automated License Plate Recognition system, which will allow the department to glean critical data around who parks where, why and when, and thus be able in the future to change certain parking designations in response to usage patterns.
Read MoreThe Indispensable – and Now Digital – Mill Valley Community Map Has Arrived
Vitality – eating, drinking, shopping, exploring, gathering and inspiring – is our north star. But you’ve got to able to find it. We’ve got you covered.
Read MoreWinterfest Holiday Hunt Continues Thru Dec. 17 – More Clues, and Answers, Below
While we ready the return of an in-person Winterfest, we’re bringing back last year’s quasi-virtual, hugely popular Winterfest Holiday Hunt, a three-week, scavenger hunt-style contest at dozens of businesses throughout Mill Valley. Kids accompanied by a parent can travel around town, preferably by bike or on foot, to take photos of iridescent stars, as selfies in front of the stars they choose, in at least eight of the 40 participating businesses, including some amazing local restaurants and retail shops.
Read MoreThe Case to #ShopMV: NY Times’ Wirecutter Says Shopping Local Returns 3x More Money to the Local Economy
When you buy local, your money does much more for your community than it does when you shop at national chains. Three times more money returns to the local economy when you shop locally, while eating at locally owned restaurants brings in two times more money.
Read MoreAs MV Market and Alan Piombo Were Honored at 2021 Spirit of Marin Awards, ‘Prisoner’ Author Jason Rezaian Says He Drew Resilience From His Hometown in His 544 Days in an Iranian Prison
On a gorgeous Friday afternoon on Children’s Islands at the Marin Center in San Rafael, more than two dozen people were honored by the Bank of Marin for their “tireless efforts in support of our community” at the 2021 Spirit of Marin Awards, including Mill Valley City Manager Alan Piombo and the owners of the Mill Valley Market. For many, it was a day of open-air smiles and hugs in the midst of an unrelenting pandemic and the economic and social turbulence of the past 18 months.
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