SALT LAKE CITY — All-Star Weekend in Utah led to an introduction to so a lot of great points about the Beehive State. Quite a few black-owned companies skilled a welcome financial increase.
Now, the Utah Black Chamber of Commerce desires to preserve it alive and assistance black-owned companies thrive. So they are hoping the new weekend retail expertise will assistance with that.
Lavaro Greer is a busy man.
“The ideal tasting butter in heaven hand packed by an angel, of course!” mentioned Greer, owner of Heavens Ideal Flavored Butters.
When he’s not operating as a radiologist, Greer serves up “The Ideal Butter in the Sky.
“I recall getting a kid and consuming garlic bread.” So we did not go to the grocery retailer to purchase garlic bread we produced our personal. “We basically mixed fresh garlic, mixed it with butter, whipped it up and place it on prime of terrific bread,” he mentioned.
He’s been catering to the tastes of the Beehive State for various years, and his firm has been expanding steadily, but points took off throughout All-Star weekend.
“I took away the expertise that heaven’s ideal-tasting butter is creating a mark, not just on Utah, but on the planet,” Greer mentioned. “We had everyone right here – each and every nationality, each and every creed, each and every race, each and every gender landed in Salt Lake City for a quick time.”
Greer’s small business wasn’t the only black-owned small business to see an enhance in income throughout All-Star weekend, which is why Dr. Sidney Shorter, executive director of the Utah Black Chamber of Commerce, partnered with Zions Bank to launch a black-owned retail expertise known as “Utah , Black and Open for Organization”.
“It did create income, but I also assume it defeated the myth that black people today and black companies do not exist in Utah,” Shorter mentioned. “We’re right here, we’re vibrant, we’re undertaking nicely and we’re basically expanding.” Now that we have the momentum, why not ride the wave?”
So now they are riding that wave, but they are also inviting Utahns to shop at their pop-up window featuring dozens of black-owned companies in downtown Salt Lake.
“I would hope that people today would start out to embrace the truth that black companies exist right here, that they are inventive, that they are prosperous and that they can come and share that expertise with us,” Greer mentioned. “We appreciate Utah. We appreciate Salt Lake City. We are a melting pot, so getting involved as an African-American entrepreneur has been one particular of the most wonderful experiences given that moving right here.
The occasion requires spot each and every Friday and Saturday from ten a.m. to six p.m. till April eight. Held in the old Zions Bank building…