About Springfield's Best

Live, shop, enjoy food and entertainment with companies that care about their customers with exemplary service and value!

Local Ideas, Innovation & Trust

Why Support Locally Owned Businesses?

Local Character and Prosperity In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character have an economic advantage.

Community Well-Being Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers,linking reighbors in web of econimic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.

Local Decision-Making Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community.

Job and Wages Locally-owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship fuels America's economic innovation and prosperity, and serves and key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

Public Benefits and Costs Local stores in town centers require comaratively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box store and strip shopping malls.

Environmental Sustainability Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.

Competition A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.

Product Diversity A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on there own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of products choices.







Celebrating 25 Years of Serving the Springfield Community!

Our Leadership

If you think your company has what it takes to be a member of Springfield's Best, please contact Tami for more information.

Tami North

Executive Director