‘We can help each other grow’: Angel Grigorio opens a Black-owned and -run market in DC
Business impresario Angel Gregorio is transforming shipping containers into an incubator for Black entrepreneurs and farmersWhen the Guardian first profiled Angel Gregorio, the 37-year-old was running her Washington DC gourmet seasonings business the Spice Suite while hosting pop-ups for other Black entrepreneurs inside her Takoma-area store. She saw herself as a community builder first, and an entrepreneur second. “My business is about supporting Black businesses,” she said of her shop, which sells spices sourced from around the world, along with a multitude of products made by local Black women.A year later, her business has followed an upward trajectory. Gregorio’s business is growing in other ways too: in January, the Spice Suite will reinvent itself as part of a mini strip mall that Gregorio designed and is opening in the Langdon neighborhood of DC. Continue reading...
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Business impresario Angel Gregorio is transforming shipping containers into an incubator for Black entrepreneurs and farmers
When the Guardian first profiled Angel Gregorio, the 37-year-old was running her Washington DC gourmet seasonings business the Spice Suite while hosting pop-ups for other Black entrepreneurs inside her Takoma-area store. She saw herself as a community builder first, and an entrepreneur second. “My business is about supporting Black businesses,” she said of her shop, which sells spices sourced from around the world, along with a multitude of products made by local Black women.
A year later, her business has followed an upward trajectory. Gregorio’s business is growing in other ways too: in January, the Spice Suite will reinvent itself as part of a mini strip mall that Gregorio designed and is opening in the Langdon neighborhood of DC. Continue reading...
