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Marvic Abarra and Eileen Andassan are partners in Caked with Love, a Corydon Avenue coffee and cake shop.

Nearly a century in, the Dawson Richardson Building is as strong and steadying as your first cup of coffee in the morning. Home to Forth, the building at 171 McDermot Avenue has become a community centre for the Exchange District.

Many businesses are mere financial products. Some people are interested in using their business to make money. The type of business they’re in doesn’t matter as much as the financial opportunity. Other people choose work they enjoy doing in a business they care about.

Amanda Kinden continues the rise of Oh Doughnuts. Learn what it’s like to create a business with lots of dough, the kind that has been transformed into more than a million of her gourmet take on the centreless sweet—and savoury—treats.

Joanne Toupin and Beau Burton opened Sleepy Owl Bread on Wall Street in 2013, with baked goods that highlight flavours of local ingredients, from prairie berry Danish pastries to round rustic loaves of whole wheat sourdough miche.

Q: Why did Giorgo Mantas and Rob Bohay open Verde Juice Bar?
A: Because they couldn’t concentrate.