The three businesses Greg Dixon Jr. launched when he bought a commercial building in Alton Park in 2019 are an investment in his family’s future – and a tribute to its past.
“My granny, I named it after her,” said Dixon, who is the grandson of the late Elizabeth Dixon, a fierce advocate for her community in the decades she lived in McCallie Homes and then, after the demolition of the city’s largest public housing development nearly 20 years ago, the Villages at Alton Park.
In May 2019, Dixon bought the building at 107 W. 38th St., and a multi- generational team of Dixons and their extended family renovated it through the summer, putting in new flooring and walls and fixtures to prep the space for their stores.
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“I loved my granny, she was my everything, and I hate she passed and didn’t get to see this,” said Dixon, whose grandmother died in 2008 at age 79. “I miss her. I know she’s proud of me.”