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A Sweet Gig

Piety and Desire Chocolate 2032 Magazine Steet PietyandDesireChocolate.com // @PietyDesireChoc // facebook.com/pietydesirechoc Local chocolatier Christopher Nobles’ artisan bonbon business, Piety and Desire Chocolate, has become the go-to place for a bar-style drinking chocolate experience and high-end, mindfully made delectable…

Top Shelf Business

Blue Book Barkeeps Bluebookbarkeeps.com Mobile bartending has risen in popularity across the country in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. “As demand for private events services increases, cocktail catering has become a growing business,” explained a February 2022…

Amy Ybarzabal

Top Real Estate Influencer The mission of the Northshore Home Builders Association (NHBA) is to support legislative, economic and educational initiatives that promote and protect the American dream of homeownership. Representing members in St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes, the…

Shawn M. Barney

Top Real Estate Influencer CLB Porter Development is a real estate development and public finance advisory firm focused on mixed-finance, mixed-income development projects, as well as helping municipalities structure transactions to access capital for their projects through municipal bonds, public…

Dan Mills

Top Real Estate Influencer The Home Builders Association of Greater New Orleans (HBAGNO) has been the voice of the residential housing industry for 80 years, representing nearly 1,000 members serving seven parishes in Southeast Louisiana. Quality, affordable housing is at…

Saban Sellers

Top Real Estate Influencer Stirling Properties is a full-service commercial real estate company, specializing in commercial brokerage, development and redevelopment, investments, and asset and property management with a focus in the Gulf South Region. Saban Sellers is part of the…

Melissa Warren, CCIM

Top Real Estate Influencer Stirling Properties is one of the most comprehensive full-service commercial real estate companies in the country specializing in commercial advisory services, brokerage, asset and property management, development and redevelopment and investments over a wide array of…

In the Green

  When Fabian Harper — licensed horticulturist, landscape contractor and owner of local landscaping business Flourish NOLA — learned he had won both the grand prize and “Audience Favorite” title at this year’s Water Challenge, presented by Propeller and…

Wine All You Want

  We cannot thank the community of Gretna enough, from the business community, government officials and our neighbors we couldn’t be luckier. As first-time business owners, we have had the opportunity to meet many experienced business owners who have…

Shifting Gears

My Next Eectric MyNextElectric.com Nighshiftbikes.com   Matt Candler is electric…and he wants to make you electric, too. Candler is the founder of Night Shift Bikes, a streetwise, design-forward electric bike company, and My Next Electric, a live online (and…

A Fight for Survival

In January, St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper proposed a moratorium on rezoning to restrict increasing density for residential development. The moratorium would limit homebuilders throughout St. Tammany Parish to building one unit per acre for a period of…

Claws Out

m.a.d. nails 4209 Magazine St. Instagram @madnails // Facebook M.A.D. Nails Mad-nails.com // info@mad-nails.com Fast Facts “The nail care market is estimated to reach $11.6 billion by 2027.” Globe Newswire “The global nail polish market is expected to reach…

Walk the Walk

Connect with Awa by Beloved awabybeloved.com     More than ever before, companies are seeing the value of creating a diverse and equitable work environment isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s a solid business practice. According to…