SALT LAKE CITY — All-Star weekend in Utah introduced publicity to so many great issues concerning the Beehive State. Many Black-owned companies noticed a welcomed financial increase.

Now, the Utah Black Chamber of Commerce desires to maintain that alive and assist Black-owned companies thrive. So that they hope a brand new weekend retail expertise will assist with that.

Lavarro Greer is a busy man.

“Heavens greatest flavored butters hand-packed by angels after all!” mentioned Greer, proprietor of Heavens Greatest Flavored Butters.

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

“I keep in mind being a toddler and having garlic bread. Properly, we didn’t go to the grocery store’s to purchase garlic bread; we made our personal. We merely combined contemporary garlic, we combined with butter, we whipped it, and we put it on an important bread,” he mentioned.

He’s been satisfying style buds within the Beehive State for a few years now, and his firm has been step by step rising, however issues took off throughout All-Star weekend.

“I took away the expertise that Heaven’s Greatest Flavored Butter is making a mark, not simply on Utah, however on the world,” Greer mentioned. “We had all people right here — each nationality, each creed, each race, each gender landed in Salt Lake Metropolis for a short second in time.”

Greer’s enterprise wasn’t the one Black-owned enterprise that noticed a spike in income throughout All-Star weekend, and that’s why Dr. Sidni Shorter, CEO of the Utah Chamber of Black Commerce, is pairing with Zions Financial institution to launch a Black enterprise retail expertise referred to as “Utah, Black and Open for Enterprise.”

“It did generate income, however I additionally assume it defeated a fable that Black individuals and Black companies don’t exist in Utah,” Shorter mentioned. “We’re right here, we’re vibrant, we’re properly, and we are literally rising. Now that we’ve the momentum, why not journey the wave?”

So now, they’re driving that wave, but in addition calling on Utahns to come back store at their pop-up showcasing dozens of Black-owned companies in downtown Salt Lake.

“I might hope that folks will begin to settle for that undeniable fact that Black companies do exist right here, that they’re artistic, they’re profitable, and that they’ll come down and share that have with us,” Greer mentioned. “We love Utah. We love Salt Lake Metropolis. We’re a melting pot, and so to be included as an African American entrepreneur is without doubt one of the most wonderful experiences since I moved right here.”

The occasion is each Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to six p.m. till April 8. It takes place within the previous Zions Financial institution constructing…