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TIVE PHILLY’S NEWS ALTERNA
OCTOBER 19-26, 2016
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Causing A Big Stir How Fishtown grit serves as fuel for Philly startup Honeygrow
BY TIMAREE SCHMIDT
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wo years ago, burlesque performer Mora Love was apart of the worst show she’d ever signed up for. What she would later ďŹ nd out that night is that the situation would amount to one of the greatest experiences she’d ever have. Love, 33, from Philadelphia, was booked to dance alongside a live band in Delaware. As she recalls, it was a “vampire/industrial/electronic/jam band.â€? It was as Love explained bluntly, “basically the worst band ever,â€? noting the small turnout and that she and her troupe were forced to improvise to arduously long renditions of cover songs.
BY Kerith Gabriel
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ustin Rosenberg doesn’t feel the need to impress anyone. He had the ashy Center City corner ofďŹ ce and hated it. He knows how to use the latest technology to catch up on news, but prefers newsprint, apparent by the issue of The New York Times with the Monday food section ipped open on a desk made of reclaimed wood—a desk designed and constructed by inmates from a correctional facility. He’s the founder and CEO of one of the fastest growing startups in Philadelphia, popular among a wide demographic that features millennials, but is the ďŹ rst to shy away from the advances of social media. For Rosenberg, his company Honeygrow and its headquarters—situated under the El tracks in Fishtown between the Girard and Berks station stop—is built on grit, authenticity but mainly doing things the traditional way. SEE PAGE 6
COURTESY: HENRY LINSER
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