Med City entrepreneur Sarah Kirklin Pacchetti hopes to open Bloom Açai Café within the First Alliance Credit Union Center at 2483 Commerce Drive NW in a few weeks, possibly as early as the weekend of Aug. 19.
The Collider Foundation, which is based in the Minnesota Biobusiness Center in downtown Rochester, recently named Amanda Leightner as its executive director. Leightner, formerly Collider’s director of community, had served as the interim executive director since 2021.