Bitcoin Boulevard US! May 1, 2014. Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

[coinneo]

(Also posted to r/Bitcoin)

We are a diverse community of small businesses who have organized to create a destination for Bitcoin commerce and community. We are a walkable business district within the neighborhood of Cleveland Heights, just 10 minutes east of Cleveland, Ohio.

Please consider reading our press release, peruse our website, and follow us on social media for more information:

http://bitcoinboulevard.us/lee-road-businesses-embrace-digital-currency-bitcoin-boulevard-us/

We also want to send a warm thank you to our friends at Bitcoin Boulevard NL, The Hague, Netherlands who have been incredibly supportive of our initiative.

[Bit_Happy]

(Also posted to r/Bitcoin)

....just 10 minutes east of Cleveland, Ohio.

Is that far enough away from Cleveland to be considered reasonably safe?

[enriquez]

This sounds awesome, I'll be there

Thanks for putting this together.

[coinneo]

Bit_Happy: Cleveland is a friendly city, and Cleveland Heights is one of its many large, established, family-oriented, and progressive inner-ring suburbs. With that being said, it is still a metropolitan area and travelers should consider the same sensible and basic precautions as they would take when visiting any other city. I feel very safe living in and getting around Cleveland.

Enriquez - look forward to seeing you there!

[cesmak]

Nice operation ! Keep it up ! 

[coinneo]

cesmak - thank you! The community is very excited about this. Only a few months ago people were either unaware of, or apathetic towards Bitcoin in my local community. Once I found one merchant who partnered with me, and saw success with their implementation, it opened up all sorts of discussion and activity.

It is interesting to work with these many small businesses. Some owners are not tech-forward, some are, but they are all very innovate business-persons and are veterans to the concept of risk. When they saw it work at one shop, and the notoriety it received, they invested some of their valuable time to learn. Once they learned, the vision was shared and it has been a positive and exciting journey ever since. The tools, while not perfect, are good enough for everyone to understand and considered appropriate and safe for their employees to conduct business.

[Bit_Happy]

Nice to see the USA has a "Bitcoin Boulevard" spot.
I'll get there sometime.

[coinneo]

Bit_Happy - we look forward to seeing you. If you travel here, please consider telling the merchants you did so. We remain realistic that there is not a huge bitcoin consumer base right in Cleveland to date, so one of our goals is to attract visitors to our city.