Sarah Williams
Age: 27
Neighborhood of residence: Charles Village
Owns: Metro Gallery
What's next?
There's always the potential, but I want to fine tune this space before I move on to another. I have ideas and options, but nothing to talk about yet.
Does the venue make the scene, or does the scene make the venue?
I'm right in the Station North arts and entertainment district, which has given a lot of other places the option to pop up, and there's this kind of molding of all the different scenes together, and I think you have to do that to be successful, at least in this neighborhood. If you stick with one genre you end up pigeonholing yourself. I guess the neighborhood does affect the scene that is within your establishment.
Where do you like to hang out?
The Windup Space, Joe Squared. Joe Squared is really where I got my start with everything and became the manager of that place, and Joe [Edwardsen] introduced me to other business owners in the area, and that's how I ended up with my spot. I pretty much just hang out with him and Russell [de Ocampo] most of the time. They're good friends of mine and it's nice being able to talk to people who know what you're stressed out about.
What kind of venue does Baltimore need?
I would say on this block, since Zodiac closed, a restaurant on the 1700 block of North Charles Street would be fantastic. It's definitely a prime market for things. So I think a really awesome restaurant would be good, and I think they should put it right across the street from [Metro Gallery] so I wouldn't have to go far.
Return to Windup Space's Russell de Ocampo.
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