Sussex Country Floral Shoppe

12/24/2024

Whew! Finally caught up!

Getting ready for a short break so we can make Aebleskiver, stuff the stockings with a few more goodies, and have some extra-loud personal time with our family. ;)

No matter what and with whom you celebrate, we hope it is exactly what you enjoy the most. 🥰

Sussex Country Floral is closed December 24th after noon and all of December 25th. We return to normal hours on December 26 at 9am.

11/27/2024

We've got just a few updates.

Firstly the fun stuff! THANK YOU!! It's been a REALLY busy start to our holiday season and Lauri's tired! Happy, but tired. :D

We at Sussex Country Floral Shoppe wish you the best Thanksgiving day! Hope you have a great time spending it with friends, family, or any other people you love!

Lauri and David are taking one of their rare 4-day weekends, which will be two day of eating, one day of rest, and one day of counting the calories and making a diet plan. ;) Back to normal hours on Monday, of course.

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11/14/2024

Tomorrow November 15 of 2024 the Sussex Country Floral lobby is going to open later than normal, so that we can conduct some planned maintenance. Pretty sure that the work will be done well before noon.

Thankfully, we caught an upcoming furnace issue before it became serious. It will make the place a wee bit too cold for walk in customers during the first few hours. So, it's not a serious problem but definitely needs fixing.

We'll still be taking web and phone orders, of course. :)

-David

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11/10/2024

10/01/2024

It's that time of year! Autumn is upon us and that means cooler temperatures, more events including football (one of my interests), and Homecoming! Love seeing all the area kids for our events. 🥰

With that busy season we also know we're going to have lots of visitors to the store. Sussex Country Floral has its own private parking lot 🚗🚙 and you are always welcome to use it when you're visiting our store.

If you've been here in the last 2 years, however, you'll see that there's nearly never any public parking available. Well, there's a reason and it's because our business neighbor Cornerstone Development has decided that it all belongs to their company.

Yes. Cornerstone Development has their own parking lot on two sides of Terrace Drive. In fact Terrace Drive is a private road and that whole road is their private place to park their company/staff vehicles. They simply choose not to use them.

Instead their company/staff vehicles purposely block the entirety of public parking in front of our building. This means that our customers cannot use the public parking and they complain. Some ask, "why doesn't Cornerstone just use their own private parking?"

The simple answer is: we don't know.

Of course we tried the direct approach and asked them to be better neighbors. "Please stop blocking all the public parking." They ignored us. We tried a written complaint. They also ignored that.

We've also engaged the village about it. The community development manager claims that he has a great relationship with the owner of Cornerstone Development and still will do nothing to assist.

We asked the community development manager to have 2-hour parking signs installed, and even offered to pay for the installation! He dismissed the request and then began to ignore our contacts.

If this seems strange to you, make sure you reach out to village officials. A 2-hour parking limit would allow us to serve every customer *and cease the abusive behavior by the neighbor.

They'd love to hear from you, and need a lot more people to remind them "the government works for us" and not the other way around.

-David

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