Black business owner wants answers after Southpoint mall pulls plug on successful store.

[Mowgli]

Thank God for the internet. Insufferable

 

[invalid]

Why bring the hood to leave it to beaver country and not have the foresight to expect problems? Strategy is sorely lacking with many business owners. Place - 4 P’s of Marketing.

 

[Family Man]

Same exact thing happened here in Charlotte last year. Black barbershop in high-end South Park mall had their contract terminated just two months after opening.

Mall management eventuality reversed the decision, however, after receiving heavy backlash. Not sure why half of the article came out in italics but it’s an interesting read and kinda goes into how the contracting and leasing of mall space works.

SouthPark Mall management reverses decision to terminate barbershop’s lease early
March 4, 2021 at 11:07 a.m. UTC
By Glenn Counts

CHARLOTTE — The owners of a popular barbershop said on Tuesday their lease at the SouthPark Mall in south Charlotte was abruptly canceled. The next day, the management company said Knights of the Razor by No Grease can stay for the duration of its temporary lease.

Brothers Damien and Jermaine Johnson own No Grease barbershops. They have been in business for more than 25 years and have multiple locations, including the one in SouthPark Mall.

“So getting into SouthPark here in Charlotte puts you at the pinnacle of business,” co-owner Jermaine Johnson said.

No Grease Barber Shop Brothers Damien and Jermaine Johnson

The brothers had their eyes on a location at SouthPark while the other locations proved to be profitable.

“When you have come from Central Avenue, and you have made it all the way to SouthPark, you have taken the entrepreneurial journey,” Damien Johnson said.

The brothers got that opportunity late last year. They signed a lease and opened their shop in January. The Johnsons wanted a permanent lease, but they said the mall would only give them a temporary one.

They trusted Simon Properties, SouthPark’s manager, because they have multiple stores at other locations.

“Because the relationship was new, not necessarily with Simon Properties, but SouthPark, we were willing to take that temporary lease and say, ‘OK, 12 months, we’re gonna show you what we’ve got,’” Damien Johnson said.

The brothers said they were floored 10 days ago when Simon Properties terminated their lease at SouthPark, giving them 30 days to vacate. The mall has the right to terminate early under conditions of the lease.

No Grease Barber Shop

The brothers’ story immediately went viral across social media and news outlets.

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SouthPark’s management company sent the following release on Wednesday:

“We are pleased to report that Knights of the Razor by No Grease will be staying at SouthPark for the duration of their temporary lease. We have delayed our other deal until next year and will be discussing with Mr. Damian Johnson and Mr. Jermaine Johnson the possibility of a permanent location for their barbershop beyond their current temporary lease term.

“Our other four locations with No Grease are all permanent leases. We’ve enjoyed a productive and growing relationship with No Grease for the past decade and look forward to expanding our relationship in the future.”

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The brothers said they didn’t understand why the temporary lease was initially terminated, and they have gotten nothing but compliments from mall management.

“We did a great presentation here with the aesthetics and with the team of barbers that we brought here,” Jermaine Johnson said. “All the professionals we brought here. We brought our best.”

The brothers said they invested between $60,000 and $70,000 for improvements for the business at the upscale mall.

Under the Improvements and Fixtures section, the lease says improvements, “shall become Landlord’s property on expiration or earlier termination of this Lease without compensation to Tenant, unless Landlord and Tenant agree otherwise in writing.”

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Statement from mall management on Tuesday:

We have always had a positive working relationship with Mr. Damian Johnson and Mr. Jermaine Johnson. We currently have five No Grease barbershop locations with them at Concord Mills (2 locations), Charlotte Premium Outlets, Sugarloaf Mills and SouthPark Mall and are open to adding more locations in the future based on their interest.

With respect to their Knights of the Razor by No Grease barbershop at SouthPark Mall, which is on a temporary lease, we have reached out to them and are currently in conversations to resolve the situation in a fair and equitable manner.

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“We have a great relationship with Simon Properties,” Damien Johnson said Tuesday “So us taking a temporary lease, it wasn’t about the temporary lease, it was about the relationship. The respect and transparency we’ve had with them for the past 10 years.”

I used go to the No Grease that's uptown. I fukks with the twins. They have a ship in Concord Mills too.
No Grease isn't a riffraff barbershop and their prices are expensive as fukk. They don't even brand themselves as a barber shop. Them South Park CACs a bunch of haters.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

It's just a ploy to keep the Nigras out .

I'm in Dallas and the most popular mall is probably Northpark. They tend to have the most high end clientele because of the stores and location near the wealthiest neighborhood in the area.

Foot Locker used to be inside the mall and ALWAYS had crazy business. Pretty sure Finish Line was upstairs back in the day as well.

One day the mall decided to jack up the rents. Finish Line went away but Foot Locker moved across the street to a spot between a Barnes & Noble and Cheesecake Factory.

They added a Nike Store and an Under Armor store. Foot Locker was really the only thing that kept young blacks going in there. The only store where pretty much all the clientele and employees were Black or Hispanic.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Go get another building Your customers will follow you and that mall will look stupid.

 

[8WON6]

I mean he made $1,000,000 in sales. He can open up his own damn store. Meanwhile y'all anti bootstrap folks are broke busters living on the plantation

This is just a stumble in the process, breh will catch up

i think you mis understood the point he and i were making, yeah he can open up his own store....HE DID...IN THE MALL. And he was successful, other people clearly see that success. While people are caught up on "they attracting certain customers" that's a smokescreen they can die on so that somebody else (white) can copy the dudes store format and cut into the black dude's profit. That part about attracting certain customers is flimsy bullshyt, follow the money.

Aint nobody against bootstrapping, we talking about how after you "bootstrap" they move the goalposts and create another issue.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

i think you mis understood the point he and i were making, yeah he can open up his own store....HE DID...IN THE MALL. And he was successful, other people clearly see that success. While people are caught up on "they attracting certain customers" that's a smokescreen they can die on so that somebody else (white) can copy the dudes store format and cut into the black dude's profit. That part about attracting certain customers is flimsy bullshyt, follow the money.

Aint nobody against bootstrapping, we talking about how after you "bootstrap" they move the goalposts and create another issue.

Either they’ll copy or put a foot locker or some shyt in there.,, or a Popbar

 

[Robbie3000]

FBA are always getting sabotaged, but you have these immigrants like these Asians running rampant with sex parlors, dirty eateries and etc., and these immigrants are allowed to operate their businesses in filthy and unethical conditions.

Instead of talking shyt about foreigners, you should be addressing the white power structure, shouldn’t you?

Why are you so terrified of white people?

 

[8WON6]

Either they’ll copy or put a foot locker or some shyt in there.,, or a Popbar

footlocker and gamestop probably right across the hallway lookin at these dude rackin in money, hatin.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

i think you mis understood the point he and i were making, yeah he can open up his own store....HE DID...IN THE MALL. And he was successful, other people clearly see that success. While people are caught up on "they attracting certain customers" that's a smokescreen they can die on so that somebody else (white) can copy the dudes store format and cut into the black dude's profit. That part about attracting certain customers is flimsy bullshyt, follow the money.

Aint nobody against bootstrapping, we talking about how after you "bootstrap" they move the goalposts and create another issue.

Thank you. I was going to respond initially but that Breh seems a bit slow.

 

[Black Hans]

If the brother's clean in his business practices, the only reason that mall told him to has to be because of reasons. These are the type of things a black business can go through when being PROSPEROUS. Remember the whole thing in Houston with the Turkey Leg Hut and the complaints "about the smoke"?

 

[General Mills]

Wouldn't be surprised if somebody with the mall or some other white people just saw how much they were making and they decided to copy his entire store format.

I’ve seen this happen with Asian strip mall owners. Saw a black owned hair store doing well. First they knew the hair plug and started raising the prices wholesale. Then opened a competing store two doors down with lower prices. The black owned store was out of business in under two years

 

[broller]

" why don't you guys get a real job?"

*get a legitimate business and are thriving*

" You're not what we're looking for ..."

 

[The God Poster]

Either they’ll copy or put a foot locker or some shyt in there.,, or a Popbar

footlocker and gamestop probably right across the hallway lookin at these dude rackin in money, hatin.

Foot locker is next door & Gamestop a few doors down

https://www.streetsatsouthpoint.com/en/directory/map/

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I used go to the No Grease that's uptown. I fukks with the twins. They have a ship in Concord Mills too.
No Grease isn't a riffraff barbershop and their prices are expensive as fukk. They don't even brand themselves as a barber shop. Them South Park CACs a bunch of haters.

i used to live 5 min from that mall when I lived in Charlotte. Mostly cac.