Minority Owned Businesses in Orange County

It took a lot of digging and searching to find this. It is meant to be a comprehensive list of the minority owned businesses in Orange County though the disclaimer at the beginning does state that some qualified businesses may have been unintentionally omitted. The publication of this list was sponsored by the "Ladies of Orange" Economics Committee and the Orange County Economic Development Commission. After much searching it is comforting to know that at least some effort has been made to document the minority owned businesses in the area. It appears that most of the businesses listed are in Hillsborough and many of the businesses researched by our group as black-owned in Chapel Hill were not listed.

Here is a list of the 9 minority owned businesses cited for Chapel Hill. It is interesting to note that none of them are located in downtown Chapel Hill closest to UNC's campus and the majority of them are located in the Midway District Center which is historically black and designed to attract & nurture minority owned businesses:

The Farrington Law Firm

Carmilla Farrington

109 N Graham Street suite 205

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Atticus Development Group ,Inc. (Building Contractor)

Al Bowers, III

1608 Edgewood Rd

Chapel Hill NC 27517

Freedom's Drum Marketing and Consulting

Shawn Alvarez

109 N. Graham St suite 101

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Calvin Brown (Financial Consultant)

Ameriprise Financial

100 Europa Dr. Suite 280

Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Harrison's Creative Designs (Florist)

Bernice Harrison

109 N Graham St. Suite 109B

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Markim Handicrafts (Imported from Ghana)

Mary Mutua

109 N Graham St Suite 109A

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Salon FefineMENT (Nail Salon/Spa)

Arminta Foushee

109 N Graham St Suite 203

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Cynthia's Tailor Shop

Cynthia Lennon

122 W Franklin St. Suite 104B

University Square

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Airport & In-Town Taxi

Dawad Norville & LaLesha Velez-Norville

109 N Graham St. Suite 105

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

http://www.co.orange.nc.us/ecodev/documents/MINORITYBIZ.pdf