New Marketplace In Monroeville Mall Features Local, Black-Owned Businesses

By Royce Jones, CBS Pittsburgh

February 15, 2022

Sometimes all you need in life to achieve success is a foot in the door and one local entrepreneur is leading the way.

In 2019, Alyse Fowlks decided she would use her dad’s barbershop in Monroeville to host a pop-up event and give Black business owners a space to sell their goods and services.

“Everybody should have a chance to put their business out there,” Fowlks said. “I had like four or five vendors. So, it was real small, but it worked out.”

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