Tag Archive for: Small Business Spotlight

Small Business Spotlight: A Conversation with the Church Street Family

What began as a single wine shop, born out of a desire to recreate the ambiance of a California wine bar, has grown into a collection of nine distinctive restaurants and bars. Husband and wife team Matt Mell and Stephanie Kennedy-Mell are the creative culinary geniuses behind the Church Street Family restaurants and bars, which […]

Small Business Spotlight: Talking North Alabama’s restaurant industry with Main Street Cafe

A career as a restaurateur isn’t exactly what Tammy Hall had planned for herself. She pursued a career in kinesiology and health. But life takes you where it takes you, she said, and she and her husband John Hall have now owned and operated not one, not two, but three restaurants and love it! “If […]

Two former UAH Hockey players unite to help small business growth in Huntsville

Lucas Bahn and Joshua Corrow have founded an eponymous consulting firm, Bahn & Corrow, in Huntsville.  Bahn and Corrow, who both played hockey for UAH, met in 2020.  Corrow told the Huntsville Business Journal that the two teammates developed a strong friendship and soon discovered that they shared common values and goals.  “We both have […]

Small Business Spotlight: Talking tastings and the wine trade with Huntsville’s Wine Cellar

Brandi Edmonds admits that she had limited knowledge about wine before she stepped in to assist her friend and former owner of The Wine Cellar, Annette Birchfield, at the shop. But over time, Edmonds fell in love with wine culture and the Huntsville wine community, so much so that she and her husband Jason became […]