By ZOË HAGGARD – [email protected]
“I enjoy to make folks experience very good about themselves,” claims Brittany Rhodes, owner of Bella Stylish Boutique. Rhodes opened up Bella Stylish, positioned at 300 N Brittain St, to offer you every thing in styles from formal to everyday and in dimensions newborn to 3X.
The name’s received a nice ring to it. And it has a related ring to her previous boutique Bellaboo Boutique, which Rhodes also owned in Lewisburg. Its namesake is Rhodes’ daughter, Isabella.
Having moved to Lewisburg from Rochester, New York, Rhodes observed there had been no boutiques in Lewisburg. Always fascinated in fashion, she opened up Bellaboo seven many years back, which was the very first of the now 7 boutiques to open there. When her kids transferred schools, Rhodes made the decision to make the go to Shelbyville.
Just in time, the former house owners at 300 North Brittain decided to go their organization. Rhodes discovered the location and opportunity ideal timing for her new boutique.
“Working in professional real estate, I realized spot was everything―you have to have parking, highway frontage,” mentioned Rhodes.
“When this came open, it was kind of like God saying, ‘Hey, arrive above,’ simply because I was jogging my ragged driving from Lewisburg to listed here.”
It took some remodeling to change a bakery with a commercial kitchen into area for outfits racks and dressing rooms. Rhodes said she couldn’t have finished it without having her fiancé Brent who served her with the contractors, and for “bearing with me even when I experienced him relocating truck hundreds of clothes, purses and accessories from Lewisburg.”
Once accomplished, Rhodes even experienced place for buddy and accredited therapeutic massage therapist Tricia Taylor to set up a place. As diverse as the two firms may perhaps seem, equally Rhodes and Taylor convey company to every other―those observing Taylor get to working experience Bella Stylish and vice versa.
So moreover opening store every single day with the expectation of building up a further fantastic clientele, Rhodes suggests other local businesses have been a fantastic environment. For case in point, Koffee Beanz upcoming doorway has brought a whole lot of…