SALT LAKE CITY — All-Star weekend in Utah brought exposure to so a lot of superb issues about the Beehive State. Several Black-owned organizations saw a welcomed financial enhance.

Now, the Utah Black Chamber of Commerce desires to hold that alive and support Black-owned organizations thrive. So they hope a new weekend retail knowledge will support with that.

Lavarro Greer is a busy man.

“Heavens very best flavored butters hand-packed by angels of course!” stated Greer, owner of Heavens Ideal Flavored Butters.

When he’s not operating as a radiologist, Greer serves up “Heaven’s Ideal Flavored Butter.”

“I bear in mind becoming a kid and getting garlic bread. Effectively, we didn’t go to the grocer’s to acquire garlic bread we created our personal. We merely mixed fresh garlic, we mixed with butter, we whipped it, and we place it on a terrific bread,” he stated.

He’s been satisfying taste buds in the Beehive State for a couple of years now, and his enterprise has been steadily developing, but issues took off in the course of All-Star weekend.

“I took away the knowledge that Heaven’s Ideal Flavored Butter is producing a mark, not just on Utah, but on the planet,” Greer stated. “We had everyone right here — just about every nationality, just about every creed, just about every race, just about every gender landed in Salt Lake City for a short moment in time.”

Greer’s company wasn’t the only Black-owned company that saw a spike in income in the course of All-Star weekend, and that is why Dr. Sidni Shorter, CEO of the Utah Chamber of Black Commerce, is pairing with Zions Bank to launch a Black company retail knowledge known as “Utah, Black and Open for Business enterprise.”

“It did produce income, but I also feel it defeated a myth that Black individuals and Black organizations do not exist in Utah,” Shorter stated. “We are right here, we are vibrant, we are effectively, and we are basically developing. Now that we have the momentum, why not ride the wave?”

So now, they’re riding that wave, but also calling on Utahns to come shop at their pop-up showcasing dozens of Black-owned organizations in downtown Salt Lake.

“I would hope that individuals will begin to accept that reality that Black organizations do exist right here, that they are inventive, they are effective, and that they can come down and share that knowledge with us,” Greer stated. “We like Utah. We like Salt Lake City. We’re a melting pot, and so to be integrated as an African American entrepreneur is one particular of the most wonderful experiences given that I moved right here.”

The occasion is just about every Friday and Saturday from ten a.m. to six p.m. till April eight. It requires spot in the old Zions Bank building…