After 20 years, the founder of Frogtown’s HmongTown Marketplace on Como Avenue is looking forward to a major expansion. The bustling indoor and outdoor marketplace is home to 125 Southeast Asian vendors, and Toua Xiong believes he’s found the right location to situate dozens more: the former Sears department store at the Maplewood Mall. His vision calls for a ground-level grocery store .
The U.S. Small Business Administration is focusing on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander entrepreneurs during AAPI Heritage Month and shared resources at a roundtable in Milwaukee in May.