A newly opened building in downtown Blacksburg offers not just pumpkin roll lattes and handmade pastries but an opportunity to help local small retail business owners kickstart their entrepreneurial dreams.
The Local, 414 North Main Street, revived the site of the former Cook’s Cleaners business. The building is transformed into a retail incubator space featuring a cafe by Moon Hollow Coffee (a satellite of the brewery on Prices Fork Road) and five 10-by-10-foot storefront stalls and five dedicated wall spaces for emerging entrepreneurs to display their products.
Kelly Finnegan, owner of walking shoe store Pedestrian that’s one of the first five businesses, said The Local provided an opportunity. She left the storefront she had in Woodstock, Georgia, and moved back to Blacksburg last year, she said…