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When Ed Brakus had trouble finding ingredients for the Southeast Asian dishes he liked to cook, he started growing things himself. Then what began as a hobby in Austin, Texas, morphed into a garage-based, part-time spice-making endeavor after his job took him to the San Francisco Bay area. But to turn those on-the-side spice sales into a full-time company, it was necessary to look outside of expensive California.
‘We’re looking forward in 2021 to expanding on working directly with restaurants rather than just on Amazon.’ Ed Brakus, Burma Spice
Brakus and his husband and business partner, Sam Majumder, looked at real estate in places like Texas and Georgia. A 4,000-square-foot live/work facility in Moore Haven, east of Fort Myers in Glades County, caught their eye and became the perfect spot for their growing business called Burma Spice. At a cost of about $60,000, they could buy the facility outright with no rent to worry about. And because they could live there too, they cou