TROY — When Colonie residents Margaret Benitez-Green and her now-husband, Rasheem Green, were seeking a venue for their wedding last summer, they struggled to find an event space that fit their budget and vision.
“We thought, if this is happening to us, it must be happening to other people in the community as well,” Benitez-Green said.
That’s when Benitez-Green and her husband decided it was time to establish their own event space. At the beginning of June, they opened Elev8 Entertainment at 79 Congress St. in Troy…