First Black woman-owned shoe store opens in Northtown Mall

The 1st Black woman-owned shoe retailer opened its doors in Northtown Mall to welcome consumers with a ribbon-slicing ceremony on Saturday afternoon.

Clients crowded “Boss Girl Shoetique” as the proprietor, Brittney Kline, welcomed consumers for the to start with time.

If you choose a walk in Kline’s shoes, you are going to obtain her journey arrived with ups and downs.

“It’s been a wrestle, but it is been exciting. We ended up below today so I’m genuinely thrilled,” Kline, Manager Woman Shoetique CEO, stated. “I shed my position this previous fall. And that really just created me want to go tougher to my entrepreneurship.”

Manager Girl Shoetique began as an on the web business enterprise in 2019.

Kline needed to go larger so she brought her shop to existence creating history as the initially Black lady to open up a shoe keep in Northtown Shopping mall.

“It also has made me a minimal little bit nervous in conditions of area because you don’t know how you’re heading to be perceived or how you will be recognized,” Kline mentioned. 

Kline stated even though living in Anoka County, representation was difficult to appear by.

“Definitely inspired me and it has built me operate a tiny bit tougher,” Kline mentioned.

Initial Black lady-owned shoe keep opens in Northtown Mall (KSTP).

She stated Black business proprietors were being significantly and number of between and she’s hoping to change the narrative.

“I came right here for decades shopping right here at the shopping mall and under no circumstances had any stores owned by people that looked like me,” Michell Denard, Brittney’s mom, said.

Kline’s mom viewed her daughter’s dream grow to be a fact.

“I’m glad that Northtown Shopping mall gave my daughter that opportunity due to the fact now people can appear in and see ‘oh, she did it. I can do it as well,’” Denard stated.

“We will need exposure in each space of everyday living. So if we can have you in the shopping mall in which we have most of our youthful children are hanging out on a Saturday, the publicity is no cost so why not?” Kiara Clark, a shopper, explained.

Spouse and children and good friends phone Kline an inspiration for opening a retailer that encourages youthful little ones of shade they can wander in her footwear a single day and do the exact.

“Nothing will come quick. You have to work for it and which is the illustration that I want to exhibit them that it wasn’t effortless, but you can do it,” Kline reported.

Boss Girl Shoetique is found in Northtown Shopping mall next to the Becker Home furnishings Outlet.