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Cleveland Entrepeneur Turning Abandoned, Trash-Filled St. Clair-Superior Warehouse Into a Hub of Design
Candy Mashmoor's textile company YaYa & Co. will be the main tenant alongside a co-working space after a multi-million dollar renovation
By Lee Chilcote on Fri, Nov 22, 2024
When Candy Mashmoor bought the building at 1030 E. 62nd St. in the St. Clair Superior neighborhood, at first she wondered if she’d made a huge mistake.
“The day I signed, I got the keys and I was like, ‘What have I done?’” said the Brazilian-born entrepreneur and founder of YaYa & Co., a textiles company that sells handmade, sustainably-sourced pillows, bedding, rugs and other items. “I couldn’t go in. It was moldy, wet and full of junk. It was horrible. I thought, ‘I didn’t buy a building, I bought a dump.’”
Yet now, with the help of loans and grants from the city of Cleveland, Mashmoor is renovating the historic, long-vacant building into a new home base for YaYa & Co., a coworking space, and office space for Humongous Fan, an HVAC company that makes large industrial fans. The project is expected to create 50 new jobs.
more:
https://www.clevescene.com/news/clev...esign-45551079
Photo by Lee Chilcote
The future home of YaYa & Co. and other businesses