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SUCCESS STORIES

"We like to champion the city. It’s a city that’s on the rise as we all know and...we want to be one of the standard bearers of that growing tide."

Aaron Pierce &
Craig Arthur Von Schroeder
Owners and Designers, Commonwealth Proper



Lexy Funk
CEO, Brooklyn Industries

Artist by trade, environmentalist by choice, and businesswoman by nature. Lexy began her retail career innocently crafting messenger bags out of billboard vinyl. That hobby has blossomed into a mini-empire that includes 14 stores in three states and a booming e-commerce website.