More details: See hereA new marketplace is coming to Glass Street, where vendors say they hope to stimulate the local economy and keep more dollars within the community.
The Black- and brown-owned and operated marketplace, referred to by the acronym Boom, is set to open next week, with an open house planned for April 11.
"Glass Street is historic," Rise Chattanooga Director of Creative Arts Programming Shateria Smith said in an interview. "But also, builders and people are coming in, buying property and turning it into something else, and no longer making it accessible for the community, things we need.
It occupies the space that formerly held Allgood's Used Books and Coffee , which closed in the fall.
Rise, an arts and culture nonprofit based in East Chattanooga , bought the storefront and two next to it late last year. The nonprofit previously operated a marketplace in a Central Avenue storefront.
A coworking space is planned to open next door to Boom, Smith said. She said Rise plans to paint a mural of Betty Patterson, who opened the bookshop in 2019, on the side of the building.
Eventually, the plan is to sell drinks and snacks, like sandwiches and charcuterie, Smith said, which will preserve some of the atmosphere that Allgood's created there.
"So it's kind of like a one-stop shop," Smith said. "You can come and support the community in one space."
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