GRANGER — Owners of Heavenly Goat Brewing Co. announced Wednesday afternoon that its kitchen will be closed indefinitely, but they plan to maintain the brewery operations with Sunday-only hours.
Willie Dearing was tired of the beauty supply store options in the area. For years, she noticed that the personable touch that she and other Black women wanted when shopping for wigs and hair products was simply not there.
âThey have everything you would want to look for in a beauty supply store, but they have no personal understanding of what theyâre selling,â Dearing said. âThe people who own the hair stores or sell wigs to Black women, they have cosmetics and things that women wear, but theyâre all men.â
So she began to talk with family and friends about whether they would support a business owned and operated by a Black woman and said she got an overwhelmingly positive response. As a woman in her early 60s, she said she has already had a career and is currently attending Indiana University South Bend and taking poetry classes. But this seemed to be a new adventure and one she increasingly fell in love with.
As their lease was nearing its end date, Urban Swirl owners Chrissy Harper and Nancy Hildebrandt had a decision to make.
âOur lease was almost up, and we were in that, âDo we remodel? Do we change locations? Where do we go from here?ââ Harper said.
Ultimately, the owners decided to stay at their location in Heritage Square Shopping Center in Granger and remodel the space. The ice cream business known for its frozen yogurt and community involvement closed for six weeks as they updated the space with new flooring and repainted. Gone is the lime green paint, replaced with two new colorful ice cream murals created by Harper to cover the walls. And no need to worry, the froyo wall still remains.