After visiting with Inc. magazine editors at the “All-Expenses-Paid-Go-See-Norm-In-New-York” contest
in August, Rizzi Designs' Rochelle Rizzi and her business partner,
Sandra Neuman, decided that in order to keep growing, they needed to
find a bigger operating space.
The owners of the Old Town
Lansing-based marketing firm are now taking on the former School for
the Blind superintendent building, which is on the far west side of Old
Town on Pine Street.
Rizzi
Designs is "growing and there’s struggling, but great, big things are
happening here,” Rizzi says about the Capital region.
At nearly 6,000 square feet, the space is about 20 times as large as Rizzi Design’s 831 N. Washington location.
“All of the renovations are supposed to be done
Nov. 6, and that’s the day we’re hoping to get the phones hooked up,”
Rizzi says. “The first and second floors are basically done and the
basement is being renovated.”
Rizzi hopes the move will help extend Old Town’s commercial reach to the west.
“I want to bring life to that area,” she says.
“What I decided after becoming a mother is that this is my community
now, and I want to find great ways to give back to the community that
gave me a home.”
Rizzi Designs has seen significant growth in the last year and Rizzi anticipates hiring two to three more employees within the next year.
Source: Rochelle Rizzi, Rizzi Designs
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains and can be reached here.
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