Fair44 — a business hub for local entrepreneurs and community events — just reopened after being shut down for half a year due to nearby construction.
Shorter and Keysean Weaver were excited to get things back up and running at their on-site café at Fair@44.
“A lot of the people in the community were kind of sad to see that this place was shut down,” Weaver said. “But now that we're open back up, and we're getting the word out to people that we're back up and running, we're starting to see more foot traffic and more street traffic as well.”. They see the reopening as “Fair@44 3.0.” The original version opened five years ago, but there were two shutdowns over the past couple of years. The first was due to the pandemic and most recently, construction on either side of their lot.
“We have a market on Wednesday with the IRC that is all immigrant- and refugee-owned and run. And a Sunday market which will have more of a mix of made in the Mid-City items,” Thomas said. “We’ll also have entertainment and a barbecue.”Another vendor team at Fair@44 is mother and daughter Linda Garcia and Luz Maria Clayton ofThey were able to open a brick and mortar store in City Heights during the pandemic to sell their art and clothing, which is influenced by their Mexican heritage.
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