Lansing hip-hop team, Urban Diversity, and Eastside Everybody Reads bookstore
owner, Scott Harris, have developed a “you scratch my back I’ll scratch
yours” relationship to help grow each other’s businesses and improve
Lansing’s Eastside.
According to excerpts from the article:
After
discussing a consignment deal, Urban Diversity’s Kemal Mailey asked
Harris about the Lansing bookstore’s “Portal Project” with neighboring Gone Wired Café.
“We’re
looking to build a door that will connect us with Gone Wired,” says
Harris of the collaborative project. “After speaking with Kemal and
realizing that not only was he located right in our backyard but also
that we shared a very similar mission, it just made sense to help each
other out.”
To help the two businesses raise
money toward their new portal, Mailey agreed to donate $1.50 from the
proceeds of each copy of “Life on the Corner” sold at Everybody Reads
to the ongoing Portal Project fund.
Read the entire article here.
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