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Some of the Detroit businesses are new and some already existed and managed to hang on during the pandemic. So the program awarded them money, too.

Samuel Van Buren and Jerome Brown said winning the competition and the monetary award came at just the right time because getting materials for their new location was impacted by inflation and supply chain issues.

Detroit's Motor City Match program has awarded 20 more businesses with cash grants. This year, the program doubled its grant fund to $1 million.

The Motor City Match small business program announced its 18th round of awardees who will receive funding, design, development or planning support.

When Ayanna Williams-Jones sees a problem, she solves it.  With the help of two assistants, Williams-Jones, who also is a mother of six, manages a nail salon, entrepreneurship consulting firm, popular podcast, rental homes and, soon, a publishing company that will release her new book. She recently moved her nail salon, Pedicure & Shoes 2 Go, out of downtown Detroit to a new space east of downtown on Jefferson Avenue.  "I know that community is really big on supporting their own and we wanted to be part of the community," Williams-Jones said. Customers walk up the stairs to find chai...