Homing in on Business by Liz Allen
Liz Allen
U Frame It owners Phyl Mashyna (left) and Matt Lebowitz have stayed plenty busy throughout the pandemic, with hemmed-in Erieites feeling the itch to freshen up and redecorate home and office spaces grown stale.
For some small business owners, there s no place like home coming home, that is.
Phyl Mashyna moved back to Erie from San Francisco with her husband, Matt Lebowitz, in October 1988. Phyl s father, Michael, had died from cancer that May, and her mom, Ginger Mashyna, needed help running U Frame It, the business Michael had opened in 1975 at West Eighth and Liberty streets.
Library Can Help Your Business, Too by Erie Reader Staff
Liz Allen
Trish Digliodo, president of Paramount Pursuits, credits many Erie leaders for the decision she and her husband, Paramount Pursuits CEO Marcos Digliodo, made to expand in Erie.
Those leaders include Rachel Stevenson, programming director for the Erie County Library, which is part of the Beehive Network and helps entrepreneurs in a variety of ways. We offer them support when they want to learn to construct something, whether that is by 3D printing, cutting it with a vinyl cutter or Cricut, or producing music, videos, or podcasts in our media lab. We also have photography equipment so entrepreneurs can take good quality shots of items they d like to sell or use to seek investment in their companies, said Stevenson.