Elite Talent Collections Sports Memorabilia store owner Mark Hartburg will be the first to admit that calling himself a sports fan is an understatement. The Kent native has brought his passion for sports to Ravenna by opening his sports memorabilia shop, which hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Thursday afternoon at 137 East Main Street in Ravenna.
“This is very exciting and unbelievable,” Hartburg told The Weekly Villager. “I started doing this back in August next door in the Chamber of Commerce, but I just moved in here Black Friday of this past November. It has been good, the traffic has been a little slow, but I am hopeful about the grand opening, and it will pick up.”
ETC Sports represents another successful business that was spawned from the Ravenna Area Chamber of Commerce’s Business Launchpad, a business incubator that resides in the RACC headquarters. As The Villager previously reported, the RACC’s Business Launchpad has given birth to new businesses since being launched last summer…