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Mugshots expands into Brewerytown
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Mugshots expands into Brewerytown
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Angela Vendetti and Jill Fink will expand their Mugshots coffee operation into Brewerytown in late June, when they open their third location at 2831 Girard Ave.
The pair were approached in the fall by building owners MM Partners, who were seeking a tenant who was both green-minded and could help attract other businesses to the neighborhood. âIt's impossible to borrow money right now,â said Vendetti in a phone interview. âMM Partners encouraged us to apply for a Merchants Fund grant, and we found out we were awarded a $50,000 Restore Retail Incentive grant in December.â
With the grant allaying some of the startup costs and MM Partners covering the rest of construction, Vendetti and Fink have a chance to provide healthy, locally sourced food and Equal Exchange Fair Trade coffee to an underserved neighborhood. The space is less than 1,000 square feet, so most of its selection of sandwiches, house-made pastries and other bites will be made in the kitchen of Mugshots at 2100 Fairmount Ave..
âI actually live in the neighborhood, at 28th and Cambridge,â says Vendetti. âI went around and asked the neighbors at North Star Bar, and they seem excited about a coffee shop right in the neighborhood.â
Thanks for writing about this. We are also on the hunt for a Mexican restaurant: http://www.phoodie.info/2010/03/15/help-bring-a-mexican-restaurant-to-brewerytown/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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