Providing a variety of offerings-including co-working space and food specials as well as pop-up booths for small local businesses and artists-in the rapidly changing North Limestone corridor helps the Fig "be a space for those who come from the population segment that's being pushed out and those that are coming in," she added. We are looking to raise more money and access some of these non-traditional financing options." Taylor said that during its first month in business, the store has "already surpassed what our three-month projections were in terms of sales, so that's really good. Speaking as the new store's co-founder and worker-owner, she said the business now "gives everyone a stake in the decision-making process" and that the Wild Fig is "expanding on the legacy of what the Fig has meant to people in the community." In August, co-owners Ron Davis and Crystal Wilkinson had announced that the business would close if a buyer was not found, which subsequently inspired Taylor to organize a successful community fund drive in hope of finding an alternative solution. Wild Fig Books & Coffee, Lexington, Ky., reopened last month in " a new incarnation" as a worker cooperative headed by April Taylor, the Herald-Leader reported.
Interested parties should contact the store via e-mail. The store in Oakley has been recently renovated, complete with shelves, signs, custom decoration, a beloved reputation, and all that is needed to get started quickly." Hutton continued: "Sandy and I (with our team) will consider all proposals, but our primary criteria are that this someone-or team of someones-will carry on the tradition of providing the best in children's books and related activities/gift items, quality programming and author events, and championing values of tolerance, community, imagination, and a smackerel of insurgency. blue manatee needs new life, new ideas, new energy." He added that the "beloved, world-class children's bookstore deserves a full-time steward-or a group of stewards-to focus their energies as we once did. For the past few years, I have tried to balance these things, to the detriment of my health and well-being, but I must finally accept that there simply aren't enough hours in the day, or neurotransmitters in my brain to do this in an effective or sustainable way."
Meanwhile, Sandy manages the many facets of Brazee Street Studios, just down the street, and together we oversee Sleepy Bee café. In an announcement, Hutton said that he was recently appointed director of the new Reading and Literacy Discovery Center at Children's Hospital, "and the Center is growing rapidly. John Hutton and Sandra Gross, blue manatee children's bookstore, Cincinnati, Ohio, is up for sale and will close January 14 if no buyer can be found.
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