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# Optimism spurs new businesses to open in Talkeetna
- URL: https://ktna.org/optimism-spurs-new-businesses-to-open-in-talkeetna/
- Published: 2010-06-25T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-06-25T08:00:00.000Z
- Description: New businesses are cropping up in downtown Talkeetna despite gloomy forecasts of a slow 2010 tourism season. KTNA went around to ask new shop owners about their motivations to open
- Author: GM
- Tags: Local News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 01:28

New businesses are cropping up in downtown Talkeetna despite gloomy forecasts of a slow 2010 tourism season. KTNA went around to ask new shop owners about their motivations to open a business in a recession.

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