The Black Market, a monthly pop-up venue for Black-owned businesses in Nashville, Tennessee, started because its founders found the cost of a physical store too high.
“So what we did was start the market,” said co-founder Carlos Partee, who owns the brand Cashville, which sells T-shirts and hats. “We started off with 15 vendors, and it’s grown ever since then.”
That was back in 2018.
In the first 15 months of the pandemic, people nationwide started their own businesses in record-high numbers. That included a lot of people in the Black community. In Nashville, the local pop-up market is providing a physical space for Black-owned businesses to sell their products and services.
Since starting, Partee said, the market has hosted almost a dozen events around the city with close to 500 vendors who brought in a total of half a million dollars.
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