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Fair Lawn Main Street Inc. has launched a spotlight program in order to showcase the diversity and wide variety of businesses that exist within the Borough of Fair Lawn.

In advance of Mother’s Day, Fair Lawn Main Street Inc. launched a promotion that makes it easy to support local businesses and get mom a gift she’ll love.

Through May 14, the organization has a buy one, get one offer for its Shop Fair Lawn Community Gift Card program, which is a digital voucher that can be used at participating businesses in the Bergen County borough.

April 30 to May 6, 2023 is National Small Business Week. According to the United States Small Business Administration, National Small Business Week highlights the impact of outstanding small business owners, and others from all 50 states and U.S. territories.

News 12 Feature: Fair lawn NJ
In this week’s Main Street New Jersey, News 12’s Lauren Due traveled across Fair Lawn and visited a bagel shop, a diner, a pet grooming business and more.

The Fair Lawn Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that it is hosting its 13th annual Taste of Our Town event which will take place on Monday, February 27th from 6:00PM to 8:00PM, at the Fair Lawn Community Center located at 10-10 20th Street.

The Fair Lawn Economic Development Corporation has restructured as Fair Lawn Main Street Inc.

The Fair Lawn Economic Development Corporation was selected as an Honoree at NJBIZ Magazine's 2022 Business of the Year Awards

It’s becoming easier than ever to shop local in Fair Lawn.

Located in the heart of Bergen County, the borough of 33,000 people has more than 600 small businesses, ranging from kosher pizzerias and acupuncturists to investment firms and children’s entertainers.

Fair Lawn is special because it has an incredible variety of businesses/restaurants. In fact, 43 new businesses opened here in just the last year. From chocolatiers to taverns, to coffee shops and ethnic markets, Fair Lawn's beauty lies in how all of these diverse shops come together to make up one amazing borough. Additionally, the municipality recently launched a digital marketplace with every business listed. A shopper recently noted, "Going down River Road, I was surprised by just how many different kinds of businesses exist on one local road. Ice cream shops, taco restaurants, Chinese food places, exercise studios, pharmacies, diners: Fair Lawn really has it all!" It is truly a terrific place to live, shop, and do business in.

People were lined up for goody bags in Radburn on Small Business Saturday, a testament to the work of local business groups that are successfully promoting local business.

The Fair Lawn Economic Development Corporation, in partnership with the
Fair Lawn Chamber of Commerce and Fair Lawn’s Main Street NJ Program held its second
annual Small Business Saturday commemoration event .

The borough's business community, represented by the Fair Lawn Economic Development Corporation and the Main Street Program, unveiled a local marketplace with 600 businesses available free to all seeking to shop local or work with local vendors.

Nearly half of the US population says they’d prefer to live in a suburban area, so the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted a research study about 2022’s Best Small Cities in America, which it released on Tuesday, Oct. 4.

The business community in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, introduced a fun way to create local community excitement and consumer activity during the dog days of late summer. Throughout the month of August, the Fair Lawn Economic Development Corporation and the Borough’s Main Street NJ Program ran a Small Business Scavenger Hunt

The Fair Lawn Economic Development Corporation and its Main Street Program have received over 180 photograph submissions for its Small Business Scavenger Hunt, thus far. The deadline for submissions is August 31.

With approximately 300 storefronts and 33,000 residents to support them, Fair Lawn has the look and the density of so-many other mid-size business districts in the state.

U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) honored local first responders, veterans, life-saving bystanders, volunteers, community leaders, and residents during his Fifth District Hometown Heroes Ceremony, held at the Hackensack Performing Arts Center.

Identifying individuals who show the potential to be great leaders is a risky undertaking. The qualities that make someone capable of persuading others to follow them are not always evident – especially at a distance. So to compile this list, we looked for individuals who have demonstrated such abilities, if on a relatively small scale or in fields other than business

The Fair Lawn Economic Development Corporation (EDC), its Main Street Program, and the Fair Lawn Chamber of Commerce partnered to hold a resource workshop for small business owners on June 7 in the Fair Lawn Community Center.

The application for the next cycle of the American Express - Main Street America Inclusive Backing Grant has opened. More than 250 grants of $5,000 each will be awarded in four cycles over 12 months to small businesses located in older or historic commercial districts across the country.