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Pattycake Bakery buying Flowers & Bread building in Clintonville Laura Newpoff For The Dispatch Pattycake Bakery is trading one North High Street address in Clintonville for another in a deal that will give it more space and something that’s been on its wish list for years – owning rather than renting. The vegan and organic bakery is planning to leave its home of 16 years at 3009 N. High St. after it closes on a purchase of 3870 N. High St. at the end of May. The latter address is the home of The Flowers & Bread Society which, in a May 19 email to customers, said it would operate through ...

“I didn’t know it was a co-op, but once I found out what it was, I was like, ‘ This is amazing. People running a company democratically. Taxi drivers, from all different walks of life, able to run this company. It was so inspiring to me, that’s really when I began to learn all about worker cooperatives, getting involved in local government and national and international organizations as well,” says Kemble. A handful of drivers founded Union Cab Cooperative in 1979, after they attempted to unionize under their previous employer, who responded by folding the company. They scraped tog...