Black-owned businesses come to Northlake mall [Video]

There’s a space helping Charlotte-owned businesses get a fresh start.

Northlake Mall has been struggling for several years, after suffering from financial problems and rising crime.

But now, the mall is embracing Black entrepreneurs to turn things around and business owners at the mall say it’s changing things for the better.

“A lot of the negative that you have heard or known has been silenced,” Danyell Butler, co-owner of Modified Kicks, said.

For Butler, he’s living out his dream.

“If we go back just a couple of years, I was homeless sleeping in a car,” Butler said.

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