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By Garth Meyer
Gazette Reporter 

Colfax business incubator grand opening Saturday

 

August 29, 2019

Karen Johnson

Karen Johnson helps daughter Kelly Tuesday at Double J Ranch Cookie Company.

The Colfax Mercantile business incubator will hold a grand opening Saturday, Aug. 31, with free frozen yogurt from 11 a.m to 3 p.m., paid for by an anonymous donor.

It may be open before, too.

"If we're ready before we'll open the door and turn the 'open' sign on," said Allie Cofer, project coordinator from Colfax Downtown Association. "But we just don't know."

The free frozen yogurt will be from Home Sweet Home Treats, one of the eight businesses inside. Others include Wild Woman Western Wear with clothing; The Rustic Star repurposed furniture and home décor; A Little Bit Rusty, quirky furniture; custom signs from The Country Haven; the Lyonys beauty collection of haircare and more and Steptoe Butte Soap Company with homemade soaps and bath bombs, plus a side project of t-shirts.

"Some of them are ironic and funny," said Cofer.

Rounding out the businesses is the Double J Ranch cookie company.

"Frosted almost like pieces of art," Cofer said.

Double J stands for Kelly and Karen Johnson, a mother and daughter who make and sell cookies in the kitchen area along with Home Sweet Home Treats.

On Tuesday, Kelly, the daughter, made pencil-shaped sugar cookies for back-to-school season.

The incubator, funded by a $30,000 grant from the county's .09 economic development program, began to take shape in July in the former Higginson's building on Main Street in Colfax.

It now has 10 businesses on the waiting list.

"We filled up in a day," said Val Gregory, Downtown Association director. The association also has an office in the space.

Hours for Colfax Mercantile will be Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.- 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Each business shares the rent and may be part of the experiment for five years or $60,000 in profit in any one year.

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Garth Meyer, Former reporter

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Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.

 

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