Black and Brown-Owned Businesses in Downtown Harrisonburg
Support Local Black and Brown Entrepreneurs!
We’ve compiled this directory with the help of Black and Brown Owned Businesses – Shenandoah Valley on Facebook and the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce to make it easier for you to find and support businesses owned by Black and Brown entrepreneurs in Downtown Harrisonburg!
To add your business to this directory, please email hdr@harrisonburgva.gov.
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Covid-19 Business Resources
Financial, technical, and community resources and assistance for small businesses
Main Street organizations like Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance have an essential role to play in supporting businesses during this difficult period. As such, we’ll be posting and updating small business resources on this page as they become available. HDR staff is here for you! Together, we will make sure the heart and soul of our community – Downtown Harrisonburg – is here when we come back.
Bricks and Clicks: Small Business Recovery Program
Applications are now closed
Bricks and Clicks offers training, free and customized technical assistance, and the opportunity to receive up to $5,000 in grant funding to small businesses impacted by COVID-19. Applications are now closed, but you can learn more about the program below.
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Friendly Faces of the Friendly City: Steve and Shami of CubanBurger
August 19, 2020 by
By Katie Mitchell / Photos courtesy of Shami Pizarro: I chatted with Steve and Shami, owners of CubanBurger, on a sultry Monday earlier this month from the comfort of my air-conditioned dining room/office. The world looks small and cold through a laptop screen, but their love and warmth transcended the two dimensional plane, and I felt I was sitting there with them, in their living room, with brand new baby Roman making cute noises in the background. Much has been written about the caliber of food you can expect at CubanBurger, and Steve has told stories of the photos that decorate the restaurant. I hope on this day to connect some dots in my mind and piece together how Steve, Shami, and CubanBurger came to be here.
