{"id":28821,"date":"2024-05-20T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/?p=28821"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:54:22","slug":"cafe-owner-helping-downtown-fall-river-blossom-new-restaurants-and-stores-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/cafe-owner-helping-downtown-fall-river-blossom-new-restaurants-and-stores-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe owner helping downtown Fall River blossom. New restaurants and stores are coming."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dan Medeiros, The Herald News
Published May 20, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ALL RIVER \u2014 With some care and collaboration, a corner of Fall River\u2019s downtown<\/a> is starting to flower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve really been focusing on bringing in new entrepreneurs into Fall River with a focus on job creation,\u201d said Joseph Holdiman, owner of Thyme Blossom<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His restaurant and cafe has been thriving at 10 Purchase St., serving coffee, breakfast, lunch and baked goodies. But in the last few years Holdiman has taken on the role of mentor for small-business owners and begun to revitalize his corner of downtown in a way he hopes spreads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holdiman owns the Buffington Building at 10 Purchase and its neighbor, the former Fall River Cooperative Bank building at 30 Bedford St. He rents space and provides incubator space for up-and-coming businesses that complement what he\u2019s doing at Thyme Blossom, giving their owners mentorship, equipment and a place to grow \u2014 with a focus on people who are from marginalized communities, including BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities or people who were raised below the poverty line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE, CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s new on Purchase Street? A lot of new businesses! Read to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[1,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-business","category-south-main"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39686,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28821\/revisions\/39686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}