Nicole R. Triplett founded Black Wall Street Kalamazoo in 2018 to build wealth in the Black community by keeping money circulating longer in the Black community.
Issue Media Group is excited to announce the company’s latest online media project – Rural Innovation eXchange (RIX). RIX will focus on the innovation, talent, entrepreneurship, social innovation and community development taking place in rural Michigan and feature the work of rural talent and content creators.
It takes more than practicing long and hard to make a career in music. These days it also takes business savvy. The Gilmore Festival Fellow program is helping young artists learn skills they need to make it work.
When Christmas shopping means shopping local the community benefits in many ways. Local retailers tell what local shoppers mean to them.
After 20 years of designing luxury, multi-family, residential community projects across the United States, Middle East, and Asia, Rebecca Luong is back home in Vicksburg, where she grew up, and is the new director of design for the $80 million Mill at Vicksburg project.
Two Battle Creek restaurant owners are moving ahead with plans to expand their businesses at a time when restaurants throughout the United States were closing because they could no longer afford to stay open.
Roosevelt Lee-Fleming learned how to keep expensive sneakers in pristine shape as a teen. Now he's turned that skill into a business of his own. The Drip Sneakers restores shoes for sneaker-heads. It also sells unique women’s apparel.
Workers who have quit their jobs or whose job have quit them talk about why they are not going back. An economist and two other people from Kalamazoo who help entrepreneurs build their businesses give their thoughts on where are all the workers.
An idea that had been rolling around Dan Kay's brain for a couple of years came together at a time when all seemed lost. Now his Perfect Paint Edger is getting national attention from all the right people.
When Charles Solano was a freshman at MSU he spent a lot of time at the very first Biggby coffee shop. Soon the Marine Veteran will be the owner and operator of five of the popular coffee shops in and around Battle Creek.
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