GlenVillage incubator in Cleveland Glenville neighborhood aims to foster Black business

Chris Webb has more on how a location in the Glenville neighborhood in Cleveland is trying to foster Black businesses.

The GlenVillage retail incubator gives black businesses a state-of-the-art physical space and a strategic location in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood, to help kick-start their small businesses.

Brittany Lee Matthews was originally a stay-at-home mom before taking the opportunity to open her store House of B Jewels at GlenVillage.

“My daughter who’s nine, I really tried to instill in her that you can do and be whatever it is that you want to be. So that’s why I started this business.”

House of B Jewels is one of six current businesses based in the mixed-use development at E. 105th Street and Ashbury Ave.

“So I knew about GlenVillage, even before it opened,” she recalled. “I did go through a rigorous process where the board interviewed me just to make sure that I was a good fit for here. I’m very thankful for this space.”

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