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Black Owned: Post Office Studios
Black Owned: Post Office Studios

Having a black owned studio space in Tacoma has been such an interesting business to watch people operate. I’m not saying the Post Office Studios doesn’t have its issues, any studio space is going to have its quirks but the energy in the room is never an issue. Owners Quincy and Matt won’t let it happen. If you are not stepping into the space to work on something in a productive matter they may not let you book it out no matter how many $$$ you flash. There is an integrity within the content at Post Office that rings true to the space and the work that comes out of there.

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Black Owned, Music, PodcastUmi Wagonerblack owned, Quincy, Matt, Post Office Studios, Post Office, P.O.S, studio, studio spaces, @baloogz, @djqj_, Baloogz, DJQJComment
Black Owned: Parable Tacoma
Black Owned: Parable Tacoma

This business is a dream come true for me in Tacoma. Parable Tacoma is a women owned, black owned family business, it is both a boutique and a bookstore. The sisters and cousin behind the business were enjoying their neighborhood when they initially saw the empty space and began to dream. That is the best part - this is their neighborhood the historical McKinley Hill neighborhood.

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Black Owned, Art, Design, ReadUmi WagonerParable, women owned, black owned, family business, sisters, cousin, neighborhood, McKinley Hill, August 2021, WILL, Will Smith memoir, donations, boutique, bookstore, booksComment
Black Owned: Diamond Leah
Black Owned: Diamond Leah

Diamond Leah is black owned and started as a boutique (Satori) much like we did only she lasted far longer a multi-brand store 5+ years…Then she opened her sister store Little Sister which over the holiday season was one of the top ranked shops when Tacomans were asked where they are doing their shopping by Grit City Magazine. It was after the opening of Little Sister that Diamond revealed her eponymous line was underway and she was evolving the Satori space to house her new project Diamond Leah.

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Black Owned, Design, Fashion, Read, ProductUmi WagonerDiamond Leah, Pacific Avenue, Pac Ave, SOTA & UWT, Grit City Magazine, black designer, Tacoma, domestic, black owned, SatoriComment
Black Owned: Basics Company
Black Owned: Basics Company

…Basics Co.’s brand story even more. He’s also trendsetting for other brands by using black owned spaces like Aisle 4 and eTcTacoma exclusively to run his pop up shop experiences. For his next trick he’s moving the pop-up experience to the well known (also black owned) Paradice Souf store and standing proudly on his blackness as a human and as a Seattleite.

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Fashion, Black Owned, Design, ProductUmi WagonerPNW, black designers, bedazzled, Basics Co., Paradice Souf, B. Haze, Central District, CD, black owned, pop-up, Aisle 4 \, Aisle 4, eTcTacomaComment