Category: Entrepreneurs
‘It’s all about the community’
Open for less than a year, the Voss Media Board Game Cafe in Galesburg is close to turning all the fun into a profitable business.
‘The license will open up doors’
A Kalamazoo city program is using business skills and licensing exam training to address the dearth of building contractors and upend a racial disparity in the trade.
Factory Coffee’s downtown café to be more than a new location
The Kalamazoo roastery and coffee shop’s third location, which opens July 21, adds a full menu, adult beverages, and later nights.
Princess Mackie brings homebuying lessons to children and adults
Kalamazoo-based Realtor turns ideas about overcoming homeowner disparities into a children’s story about buying castles and breaking curses.
New cocktail lounge mixes culture and history
The new Dabney & Co., named after a pioneering mixologist who was forced to buy his way out of slavery, will open in the former Civil House Coffee space in downtown Kalamazoo.
Kids and adults still scream for ice cream
A locally owned ice cream truck company has recently launched. It’s a combination of tastes and sounds that are nostalgic to some and strange to the younger crowd. But for everyone, it’s just in time for the heat wave.
From high school to a Fresh Thyme Market deal
Teenage entrepreneur announces a retail deal for her eco- and body-friendly personal care products.
New kids camp adds entrepreneurialism to free summer fun curriculum
Kalamazoo nonprofit Steps to Victory focuses on teaching autonomy while reducing the summer lag that can impact the next year for crucial elementary school grades.
‘Trying it, failing, doing it again’
The only Black- and Indigenous-owned marijuana business in Kalamazoo is targeting another 400 pounds a month when their expansion is completed. But Ahki Canna is an outlier in an industry dominated by the white and wealthy.
Back to school
After an extensive restoration and a pandemic break, classes (and more) resume at the 143-year-old school house on a Cooper Township corner.
‘It’s all about the community’
Open for less than a year, the Voss Media Board Game Cafe in Galesburg is close to turning all the fun into a profitable business.
‘The license will open up doors’
A Kalamazoo city program is using business skills and licensing exam training to address the dearth of building contractors and upend a racial disparity in the trade.
Factory Coffee’s downtown café to be more than a new location
The Kalamazoo roastery and coffee shop’s third location, which opens July 21, adds a full menu, adult beverages, and later nights.
Princess Mackie brings homebuying lessons to children and adults
Kalamazoo-based Realtor turns ideas about overcoming homeowner disparities into a children’s story about buying castles and breaking curses.
New cocktail lounge mixes culture and history
The new Dabney & Co., named after a pioneering mixologist who was forced to buy his way out of slavery, will open in the former Civil House Coffee space in downtown Kalamazoo.
Kids and adults still scream for ice cream
A locally owned ice cream truck company has recently launched. It’s a combination of tastes and sounds that are nostalgic to some and strange to the younger crowd. But for everyone, it’s just in time for the heat wave.
From high school to a Fresh Thyme Market deal
Teenage entrepreneur announces a retail deal for her eco- and body-friendly personal care products.
New kids camp adds entrepreneurialism to free summer fun curriculum
Kalamazoo nonprofit Steps to Victory focuses on teaching autonomy while reducing the summer lag that can impact the next year for crucial elementary school grades.
‘Trying it, failing, doing it again’
The only Black- and Indigenous-owned marijuana business in Kalamazoo is targeting another 400 pounds a month when their expansion is completed. But Ahki Canna is an outlier in an industry dominated by the white and wealthy.
Back to school
After an extensive restoration and a pandemic break, classes (and more) resume at the 143-year-old school house on a Cooper Township corner.
