Location, location, location.

So I have been presented with an opportuiniy that strikes at the very heart of the reason I moved to Asheville 10 years ago. An opportuniy to move my shop downtown.
The very first scouting trip my then girlfriend, now my lovely wife, made back in 1998 to see Asheville is still etched in my mind. I remember walking up Biltmore Ave and exulting in the art presented in the galleries there. I remember finding Wall street and being tickled by how quaint and, at the same time, powerful that little side street was. I remember walking through every jewelry store and knowing that if I moved here I would be swimming with the big fishes. I knew that I wanted to be a part of this energy, part of the ecelctic mix of shops that made this one of the few surviving and thriving downtown's left in America.
It has taken 9 years for everything to come together and I am about half way to meeting my goal.
So am I jumping up and down with joy? No.
I am scared to death and loosing sleep.
Here are the questions that keep me up at night.
Will enough of my customers follow me 2 miles into the hectic streets of downtown even if I have parking spaces available for them?
Is this recession almost over?
How in the heck am I going to fill 2000 sq feet of retail space!?!
Am I ready for downtown?
I am sharing my night worries with you, not in an effort to receive anwers, but to let you in on some of the thoughts a small business man has while trying to grow.
PS. For the faint of heart, I do actually have a plan to take care of all my worries.