First pop-up store gets ready in Public Safety Center incubator space

A Pinch of Pepper will be the first in a ‘microbusiness’ space set in a preserved brick-and-limestone façade, rebuilt into the city’s $51 million police station and parking garage

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FIRST POP-UP GETS READY IN PUBLIC SAFETY CENTER INCUBATOR SPACE

One of the final touches – and the oldest touches, actually – on the Lafayette Public Safety Center is expected to open for the first time later this week, near the corner of Sixth and Columbia streets.

A Pinch of Pepper, a home-grown pop-up spice shop, will be the first to settle into space the city has staked out as a brick-and-mortar incubator behind the brick façade of the Horner Building, salvaged and saved along the 600 block of Columbia Street as part of the $51 million police station and parking facility.

Emily Colombo, owner of A Pinch of Pepper, is working this week to set up her shop, after construction finished on electrical and other components on a place the city’s economic development office is calling a “microbusiness space in the heart of downtown.”

Emily Colombo later this week will open A Pinch of Pepper, the first pop-up retailer in Lafayette’s Public Safety Center. The city has slots for two microbusinesses looking to get a brick-and-mortar start along Columbia Street, in a space that uses the salvaged and rebuilt facade of the 1920s Horner Building. (Photo provided)