Fred Dietz Floral opened in 1959 and is still a family-run business. It is now run by Fred’s son Ed Dietz and his wife, Kate, who took over when Fred retired in 1983. Ed began working in the store at age 12 and continued working there, at least part-time, even when he had his own interior design business designing bars and restaurants. Kate grew up in Bellevue, and Ed grew up just past the border in Ross Township.

     Fred Dietz Floral and Gifts provides flower arrangements for all occasions. They also make a wide variety of gift baskets such as fruit and gourmet baskets. The shop was one of the first to design balloon arrangements and wedding cakes made out of flowers. They are one of the only floral shops that still hand wires corsages instead of using glue and magnets, and customers come from afar to purchase these. The shop is also one of only a very few floral shops that create special symbols (such as the Marine and Mason logos) out of flowers for funerals.