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Steven Monacelli Lucky’s Hot Chicken recently opened a second location, which is a relief because we can hardly find any hot chicken around here. Steven Monacelli previously wrote about the first location offering: “The tenders and wings plates come piled on top of white bread, which sops up the extra spice blend, a Nashville hot chicken tradition.” When it comes to any food that can employ the verb "sops," there’s always room for more. Postino Wine Cafe opened this weekend next to Merit Cafe. This is the third outpost for this spot (the others are in Arizona and Houston). Each locat...

More than 1,500 people were drawn to the opening weekend of a new pop-up food park in South Dallas that launched this past Friday. The aptly named MLK Food Park sits at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Holmes Street, just a few blocks away from the recently renovated Forest Theatre. The MLK Food Park is open each weekend, Friday to Sunday, until May 2. More than two dozen primarily Black-owned small businesses based south of Interstate 30 will be showcased throughout the duration of the pop-up. “About 95% of the businesses are Black-owned, and 5% are Hispanic-owned...

Build a Better Block Macomb unveils park recycled cap benches & picnic table Linda Lee Blaine, BBB Macomb USA Today Netwrk. MACOMB — Macomb’s public spaces will be receiving six new benches and a youth-sized picnic table thanks to a community wide initiative spearheaded by Build a Better Block Macomb. The benches are created by Green Tree Plastics in Evansville, Indiana (https://www.greentreeplastics.com/) from plastic caps and lids that are otherwise not recyclable. The response to the call for recycled caps was tremendous with many local organizations, businesses, and individuals collec...

Pop-up food park opens for families in South Dallas By FOX 4 Staff Empty lot transformed into space for families in South Dallas For the next month, the MLK Food Park will be open for families in South Dallas with food, vendors, musicians and entertainers. Kristin Leiber with the Better Block Foundation explains. DALLAS - A new food park is open in an often forgotten South Dallas neighborhood. For the next month, an empty lot on Martin Luther King Boulevard at Holmes Street will be transformed into a space for families with food, vendors, musicians and entertainers. During this time, visitors...

Akron's Kenmore neighborhood is investing in small businesses Akron's Kenmore neighborhood is investing in small businesses KAREN FARKAS Akron's Kenmore Boulevard defied COVID-19. While the pandemic decimated many small businesses, Kenmore has attracted six new ones as entrepreneurs were lured by city and local initiatives that have transformed the multiblock area into an attractive, walkable streetscape. The new businesses include a preschool, home care business, tea shop, restaurant and barbershop, according to the Kenmore Neighborhood Alliance. And the boom in small businesses continues. A...