The Goodbye at The Broom Factory

For the past 10 years and more first as The Animals’ Agenda and then as the Animals and Society Institute, the Grumpy Vegan has come to work in The Broom Factory, which is in my old neighborhood of Canton in southeast Baltimore. The Broom Factory was once, well, a broom factory, and a direct descendant of the original owner leads the effort to creatively reuse the complex of three attached buildings as a “business incubator.”

Two of my most favorite businesses and neighbors are Blue Studios and Spectrum Advertising Inc. ASI’s Animals’ Platform CDROM would not have been made possible without Blue Studio’s Ken Feurer and Patty Feurer (brother and sister proprietors) and their creativity, brilliance and tenacity. Dave “Donut Boy” Bosley and his Spectrum Advertising office were directly across the office from mine. Although our professional paths never crossed, we would routinely shout across the corridor to each other putting the world to right, well, left.

The Broom Factory is truly a unique space with special tenants. But Dave, Patty and Ken are quite simply the best and will be missed.