New Roots Small Business Pop-Up at Iowa Events Center June 6

FREE Event runs from 8am - 4pm

WHO:                 Vendors who were displaced by the closing of The Painted Tree, organized by Karley Davis, owner of Karley’s Collection

 

WHAT:                New Roots Small Business Pop-Up is a vendor fair featuring small businesses coming together to rebuild, reconnect, and grow

 

WHEN:              Saturday, June 6
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

 

WHERE:            Iowa Events Center
EMC Expo Center – Hall C
730 Third Street
Des Moines, IA  50309

 

TICKETS:          FREE and open to the public
Parking in the Iowa Events Center lots will be free for this event

 

DETAILS:          "What happened at the Painted Tree was heartbreaking. At the Clive location alone, around 300 small business owners lost not only their storefront, but a source of income they depended on. We were given about a week to go in and tear down everything we had worked so incredibly hard to build.

 

These are real people who poured their time, money, creativity, and heart into making their dreams a reality, only to have everything ripped away in a matter of minutes with an unexpected email.

 

My goal with this event is to create a space where the community can come together to support the small businesses impacted by the sudden closure. This pop-up was designed to be a free opportunity for vendors to reconnect with their customers, sell overflowing inventory, rebuild visibility and momentum for their businesses, and most importantly, recover some of their financial losses, especially since we were never paid for our April sales.

 

This event truly would not be possible without the incredible support of the Iowa Events Center. We are all deeply grateful for their support and for being part of a community that is working just as hard to help us move forward from everything that was lost.”

 

~ Karley Davis, Owner of Karley’s Collection & Organizer of the New Roots Small Business Pop-Up"