Grand River WorkPlace Member Spotlight: JaTara Wright

JaTara Wright, owner of Innovative Marketing Artistry & Innovative Work Alternatives boasts nearly 15 years of helping small and medium-sized businesses achieve marketing success across different industries. Our expertise spans diverse areas that include brand strategy, web design, SEO, etc. We guarantee that we’ll help you get measurable results that will significantly boost your business’…

Grand River WorkPlace Member Spotlight: Danielle North

Danielle North, Founding Executive Director of Degree Forward, is passionately pursuing college completion rates for working adults and professionals. What inspires you? My commitment to supporting my community and making an impact in the lives of disenfranchised members of our society. Who is your ideal client? Working professionals and adults. Why did you choose Grand…

Chantele Jones, Owner of Estella’s Vegan Dessert Boutique in the pop-up retail space in Grand River WorkPlace

Chantele Jones, owner of Estella’s Vegan Dessert Boutique is proud that her shop is the first and only black women all vegan bakery in Detroit. Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation is proud that she chose to open her business in a brick and mortar space for the first time in our Grand River WorkPlace pop-up retail…

Grand River WorkPlace Member Spotlight: Cheryl Davis

Cheryl Davis, Robinson Realty & Management Group, a woman, minority-owned business that assists municipalities and consumers with their real estate needs. What inspires you? I come from a family of entrepreneurs and owners and have diverse experience in other disciplines. Who is your ideal client? Our Agents can assist clients with various needs. Why did…

Grand River WorkPlace Member Spotlight: Camille Corr Chism

Camille Corr Chism, CPPL Fellow, Indigo Packaging & Consulting, LLC, packaging engineering, design management and automotive packaging technology tools What inspires you? I started Indigo Packaging because I wanted to help companies improve their processes and products through packaging and lean manufacturing. Who is your ideal client? Automotive Tiers and start ups Why did you…

Grand River WorkPlace Member Spotlight: Alicia Skillman

Alicia Skillman, PLLC assists small business, families, and individuals on their journey to freedom: probate and estate planning, trademark and copyright, contracts, small business general counsel, real estate closing, DEI, ethics, and life. What inspires you? There are many routes to financial freedom and this is one for me. I assist my clients with their…

Aaron Hall’s Small Business Grows at Grand River WorkPlace

Aaron Hall started his business, Motor City G.S.D (German Shepard Dogs), at Grand River WorkPlace, 19120 Grand River, about four years ago, and business has been good. So good in fact, that Aaron is looking for his own storefront, preferably somewhere close by so that he can continue “living and working in Grandmont Rosedale.” Motor…

Lemonade and Beyond: A Family Enterprise

Lemonade and Beyond and the Detroit Original Seafood Truck are much more widely known than Cathy, Rashad, Christie, Rashad, Jr., Nasir, Cadar, Jewel, Laikyn, Laziyah, Martez, Lavoier, or Armoni. Shoppers come to the Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market just to get a lemonade, or maybe a lemonade with mango, green apple, or the newest option: dragon…

Grannies Pound Cakes: A Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Favorite

When friends and family urged Patrice Davis, “You should sell these, they are delicious!” Patrice did not have being a farmers’ market vendor in mind. Patrice knew her baked goods were delicious. After all, her goal was to bake butter pound cakes like her Aunt Amy. Patrice experimented a while, tweaked the recipe, and although…

Ashley Hughes Chooses the Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market as the First Home for Little Icy’s Luncheonette

Icyphine, or Icy, was a farmer’s wife from Indiana who moved to Michigan’s thumb in the 1920s, and who loved to cook three times a day for everyone who worked on the farm. When Ashley Hughes was about nine, her family noticed her resemblance to her great grandmother Icy, and so “Little Icy” stuck. Ashley…