Homewood’s UpsaDaisy success story: From pop-up proprietors to TOD property owners

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In 2014, three friends who had worked together for years on community and school service projects decided to try a new venture.

Julie Lawton, Suzy Moore and Julie Smith, all of Flossmoor, created a pop-up shop as part of Homewood’s holiday shopping program.

Many pop-up shops are transient, but the ideal result, from the village’s perspective, is for prospective business owners to use the format to test a business idea and use the experience to help launch a permanent business.

In this case, it worked…Please click here to read Eric Crump’s story in the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle.