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PEORIA Just seven-and-a-half months after opening in the Warehouse District, Hello Poppy Boutique is moving to a strip mall in central Peoria.
With the grand opening happening Saturday at 4923 N. Sheridan Road, owner Justice Parker was bustling about on Wednesday morning.
“Our contractor is finishing literally in an hour, so we are spending all night tonight and then the next two days getting everything situated, she said. “I actually have my entire softball team coming and helping put up displays and cleaning today.”
Parker, 25, had never owned a store before opening Hello Poppy, though she knew quite a bit about being an entrepreneur from growing up in the family, which owns the 50 s Diner. Parker’s shop will now be much closer to the diner in the busy Peoria Metro Centre, a fact she hopes will help bring more foot traffic into the store.
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PEORIA Justice Parker always knew she would be a business owner.
Parker, 25, owns Hello Poppy Boutique in the Peoria Warehouse District. Because her family owns the 50 s Diner in the Metro Centre, she’s been around entrepreneurs all her life.
Hello Poppy isn’t Parker’s first business. Soon after having her second child, she started The Sparkly TeeCup, an online shop for custom-made T-shirts and tumblers. She made all the merchandise herself from designs dictated by the customer.
“I had it for about two years, and it was super successful,” said Parker. “But I had an injury to my wrist, and I was unable to continue that one, so I opened up the boutique.”