Hot Sheet: Mojo Coworking expands in new downtown Asheville location; Radha Indian Grocery set to open; Chop Shop Butchery marks 10th anniversary; more
Also, the Parade of Homes Asheville is set for the next two weekends
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Mojo Coworking is moving from its 60 North Market Street location to a new, larger space at 81 Broadway St. (the old Minico cleaners building) beginning Nov. 1. Mojo founder Craig McAnsh is partnering with Blair Hobgood of Hobgood Holdings, LLC. The move increases Mojo’s space by 50 percent, increases meeting room capacity and doubles the number of private offices Mojo has to offer. Mojo’s 70-plus members will move to the new space. When McAnsh opened Mojo on April Fool’s Day 2011, his was the only collaborative shared workspace in town. (McAnsh heads up his own boutique branding, marketing and trends agency, Native Marketing, and was serving as executive director of HATCH Experience Asheville at the time.) Mojo Coworking outgrew its 1,700-square-foot Wall Street location in 2012 and later that year expanded to a brand new 4,500-square-foot space. There’s no word yet on what might be going into the North Market Street space that Mojo is leaving behind. Disclaimer: I met Craig when he opened a decade ago, have admired his work and have been working out of Mojo’s space some this year. Congratulations, Craig!
Summit Coffee, which started in Davidson, N.C., back in 1998 and has expanded with locations on Huntersville, Chapel Hill, Charlotte and two coffee shops here in Asheville, has launched a franchising program. “Our vision for the future of Summit is to become a coffee brand that’s admired nationally, but loved locally. When someone goes to our RAD (Asheville River Arts District) café and thinks that is Summit — the one and only — to us, that’s a win,” Summit’s owners explain in a website post. Here’s another disclaimer: I visit Summit’s RAD shop at least two or three times a week, and just love the people working there, not to mention the delicious coffee drinks. Cheers!
Two great Asheville cocktail bars - Little Jumbo and The Golden Pineapple - are teaming up to raise money for the nonprofit Our Voice. Each bar is presenting its own variation on a classic, the Brandy Crusta, a tasty cognac-based sipper) Each bar will serve the other’s variation all month, with one dollar from every drink sold donated to Our Voice. (Photo courtesy of Chall Gray of Little Jumbo.)
Radha Indian Grocery is set to open Thursday (Oct. 7) in the former Radio Shack space off Patton Avenue (near Gypsy Queen restaurant). Radha Indian Grocers also has a location in Greenville, S.C. Here’s their website.
Little Chango, a self-described Hispanic craft kitchen, is opening in the little box of a building that used to be home to Hi-Test Deli on Coxe Avenue.
The Chop Shop Butchery on Charlotte Street in Asheville is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Cheers!
The Miss and Mister Gay Latino Asheville event will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts. The show combines a drag show and a traditional beauty pageant into an inclusive night where all are welcomed, according to organizers.
The Parade of Homes Asheville, featuring 36 newly built homes around Asheville (15 of which will be open for in-person tours), is set for the next two weekends in October (9-10 and 16-17). The Asheville Home Builders Association event is sponsored by Coldwell Banker King. The lineup of houses is designed to inspire tour-goers who might be considering new construction or an upcoming home renovation. Homes for in-person tours range from a modern Arts and Craft home in Montford to the extremely affordable house in BeLoved Village. Living Stone Design + Build is this year’s “cover” builder and has two homes on the tour. The Parade of Homes publication has a featured builder, Steel Root Builders, LLC.
Calling all pipe organ fans: The Cathedral of All Souls will hold an afternoon concert from 4-6 p.m. on Oct. 17 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Alice Own Memorial Organ. Canon for Music Kyle Ritter will perform, along with Marilyn Keiser, former music director at the Cathedral, and others. The event will be live-streamed. The chancel organ, installed in 1971 by the Casavant Organ Company of Canada, comprises three manual divisions and a pedal. The cathedral’s older antiphonal organ over the front door contains a composite of older pipework, including a four-foot flute rank saved from the original 1896 Geo. S. Hutchings Organ. The chancel and antiphonal organs together comprise 55 ranks with almost 3,000 pipes in six divisions, all of them controlled from the recently restored and updated three-manual console located in the chancel, according to the All Souls website. Rock!
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