Three second-generation immigrants are creating Portland’s first Somali-owned late night coffee shop, Above Grnd in the Old Town neighborhood.
Three second-generation immigrants are creating Portland’s first coffee shop above a sneaker store in the Old Town neighborhood.
Ahlam Osman, only 22-years-old is already a co-owner of Portland’s first Somali-owned coffee shop, Above Grnd. Growing up in the Rose City, she always loved witnessing how people’s moods were lifted by the energy cultivated in a coffee house.
When her friend started working with a popular sneaker store that had open space, she knew it was time to seize the opportunity.
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