by Nayana Santana
June 29, 2020
Categories: Black-Owned, SHOP PHL,
PIDC is proud to continuously support our diverse businesses, clients, partners, neighborhoods, and communities. Here are a few of our awesome PIDC clients that are open for business and also black-owned. Join us in supporting Philadelphia businesses by shopping for local products and services from technology, healthcare, construction, hospitality, marketing, real estate, creative industries, and more.
Last updated: 2/16/21
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Purple Gloves Cleaning Company, LLC
A cleaning company established under the idea of lightening the load of those with busy lifestyles.

Adkins Management, Inc.
A woman-owned general contracting company. Through their partnerships with the City of Philadelphia, Adkins Management’s team has had the opportunity to work with some of the city’s most vulnerable residents. Within these agencies they have built handicap accessible bathrooms, reface walls, repair roofs, and remodel kitchens.

Beaumonde Originals
Seeking unorthodox and unique ways to tell your story (weddings, commercial, travel and web design).

Community Marketing Concepts
Community Marketing Concepts, is both a certified minority-owned full-service engagement marketing and communications firm. CMC has grown its business with a mind for connecting brands and messages to the motivators and needs of target audiences.
GrindHouse Multimedia
Studio services include recording, mixing, engineering and graphic design.

Mosaic Development Partners
As a Philadelphia-based real estate development company that identifies real estate projects with the potential to bring positive change to a community, Mosaic Development Partners has worked with PIDC on various projects over the years. Their most recent project — the Golaski Labs project — is the first project that PIDC is investing in which also has secured capital through an Opportunity Fund investment.

REC Philly
As the first of its kind, REC (Resources for Every Creator) Philly, serves as both a creative agency and a creative incubator with a mission to connect, empower and educate the creative community.
2B Groomed Barbering Studio
Philadelphia’s premier men’s grooming experience, located in historical Washington Square West, where luxury and comfort meet and restoration begins.

DanceFit Exertainment
Boutique dance fitness studios and diverse, online community offering group fitness classes designed for the person who simply loves to dance.

Replica Creative
A digital color-printing company, specializing in the production of annual reports, brochures, marketing plans, advertisements, business cards, photo enlargements, booklets, newsletters, etc.

Smith Flooring, Inc.
A certified MBE, DBE, WBE, and WBENC women-owned business that strives to lead the commercial flooring industry in the Delaware Valley.

Strother Enterprises
A prominent cross-industry food service provider and partner which has been family-owned, minority-owned, and veteran-owned for over 30 years. The company provides a variety of services to companies primarily associated with sports & entertainment, healthcare, business & government, healthcare.

The Tactile Group
A certified Minority Business Enterprise and LGBT Business Enterprise that provides web development and creative services. The Tactile Group specializes in website design, application development, content management systems, and more.

Team Clean
A woman-owned commercial, janitorial services company headquartered at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The company is providing disinfecting and sanitizing services for COVID-19 and other viruses.
FOOD DELIVERY + CURBSIDE PICK UP
Pound Cake Heaven
A family-owned bakery that makes everything from scratch in small batches by using the freshest ingredients with no preservatives.
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Franny Lou’s Porch
A Kensington-based café that invites community activism and cultural awareness.
Eatible Delights Catering
A full service, off-premise catering company that specializes in classic cuisine with a modern flair (ribs, blackened catfish and gouda mac n cheese, to name a few). Meal prep, pick-up, and deliveries are available for lunch and dinner.
Good Karma Cafe
Eco-friendly and sustainable coffee shop, serving organic and fair trade certified coffees
Black and Mobile
The first Black-owned food delivery service in the country to exclusively deliver for Black-owned restaurants.
Whipped Bakeshop
An appointment-only woman-owned bakery specializing in cakes, cookies and cupcakes, as well as classes and group tasting events. Pick up orders available.
Pretty Girls Cook
A place with good R&B music and delicious food, there is a variety of comfort food staples like french toast and shrimp and grits, each with a flavorful Philly twist. Take out now available.
RETAIL
Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse
A comic book store and coffee shop hybrid located in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia. Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse is a place for comic book fans, hardcore gamers, movie addicts, television connoisseurs, and zombie apocalypse survivalists to meet
De’Village
Unique African gifts, jewlery, artwork, fabrics and other accessories/decorations. Some even made by the owner himself!
Little Marrakesh Bazaar
Authentic Moroccan crafts located inside Reading Terminal Market.
PERSONAL, HEALTH + CHILD CARE
My Independence at Home
A full service home care agency that provides professional home care for individuals who are not able to perform daily tasks such as bathing, dressing, and fixing meals, due to disability.
NV My Eyewear
One stop shop for optician services and glasses for every occasion. Mobile services available too.
Overbrook Little Learners
Education for little learners. Proud to be an EOE and care provider.
Sarah Car Care
Transportation service in the Greater Philadelphia Area for special events or curb to curb service for medical appointments. Visit their website to request a trip.
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