People who helped along the way
We believe that community, economics, and environmental sustainability go hand in hand. We envision BCL as a platform for nurturing, promoting, and sustaining locally owned and operated Creative Economy businesses.
Through our purchasing power, business partnerships, and membership, we want to create a vibrant, creative, and green local economy. Here are some of the folks who’ve helped us so far:
Beta Brooklyn Coordinators–
- Matthew Willse, theCoup.org
- Adina Saperstein, The Veneration Project
Community Partners–
- Green Edge Collaborative
- Park Slope Parents Career Networking
- Overflow Magazine
- Celebrate Brooklyn
- Momasphere
- F–ed in Park Slope
- Frank Sills and Faith Evans-Sills, Curators of TheGallery@BCL
Business Partners–
- Matthew Willse, theCoup.org
- NYS Small Business Development Center, Brooklyn
- Wastematch.com
- Katovich Law Group
- Brooklyn Business Library & PowerUP! Competition
Construction & Design Partners–
- Eric Safyan | Architect
- Murray Levi and Sara Anderson, LiRo Architects + Planners, P.C.
- Michael Geary Design & Engineering
- Rene Mercado, Starlite Construction
- Robin Industries, Mechanical Contractor
- Malcom James Kutner Interior
- PDS Development Corporation



Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives
Elana Haviv
Manoush Zomorodi
Andrew M. Ayers, Esq.
Neil Carlson
Chris Hubbard