- June 18, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
DENVER — If our biggest strength lies in our differences, Denver’s Five Points neighborhood might just be the standard bearer for strength.
“It’s beautiful down here,” said Tauhikla Pugh. “It’s cultured.”
“I see it as a place for everyone,” said Derek Williams. “It’s a great community. One of the best in the United States.”
Take the relationship between Michelle Sawyer and Fathima Dickerson, for example.
“Fathima is awesome,” Sawyer said.
Sawyer is Italian and launching a new bakery called Scratch on Welton Street, while Dickerson and her family have now owned the Welton Street Café in Five Points for more than three decades.
“We need each other,” Dickerson said. “If nothing else – during a pandemic, when you’re like, everything is closed – you notice how much your neighbors make the neighborhood.”
The two women couldn’t be more different, and yet, they’ve recently forged a friendship thanks to a shared passion…
