05/15/2021
In true Jermaine fashion, I’M LATE MAKING MY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🙄 I’ve got a good excuse though. Yesterday I spent the entire day preparing for the BIG relocation.
NoDa@28th will be accepting its last booking this weekend. All the retail tenants in the facility will vacant before Monday. After 5 splendid years, NoDa@28th Creative Arts Studios will be closing, for good. Our entire complex is being “redeveloped” and all units have been asked to vacant. This did not come as a surprise. We’ve known for a couple years that the owners planned to sale or/and redevelop which would require we move.
THIS IS NOT A SAD ANNOUNCEMENT.
It’s certainly bitter-sweet though.
When I think of all the countless band rehearsals, fitness classes, yoga sessions, theatre rehearsals, photo shoots, dance companies, bridal showers, baby showers, 1st Birthdays, community town halls and political rallies we’ve hosted, I am filled with joy but I’ll miss growing with them.
When I think of our tenants - the African American small business owners (mostly single Moms) that trusted me with their dreams - many of whom were so successful at NoDa@28th, they outgrow the space, I am filled with joy but I’ll miss growing with them.
WHAT’S NEXT?
NoDa@28th was several things:
a hourly rental studio space, a special event venue, a retail center, an art gallery and the Free Store location of POOR NO MORE (PNM).
Instead of one central location, each of these
entities have grown to need its own unit.
One facility can no longer house or supply the unique needs of each business.
GOD IS EXPANDING MY TERRITORY.
By the end of the year, I’ll have 3 locations -
all on the same campus at the intersection of The Plaza & Milton Rd.
Starting with the opening of
EAST CHARLOTTE GLAM STUDIOS (ECGS) openings mid June 2021. ECGS boasts 11 studio suites for Hair Stylists • Barbers • Braiders • Lash & Brow Techs • Make Up Artists • Masseuse • Estheticians • Yoni Artists Tattoo Artists • Photographers • Visual Artists • Fashion Designers • Boutiques and the like.
I’m super excited!
East Charlotte Creative Arts Studios will open in the late Fall 2021. Then POOR NO MORE in the Winter 2021 - all on the same campus.
All 3 units will feature gallery walls with works from local visual artists. PNM will specifically feature art from homelessness, poor and working poor visual artists.
WOULD YOU LIKE A TOUR
of East Charlotte Glam Studios?
Text me at 980-309-1318 TODAY