Years of work and dedication to her business are paying off for Cassandra Tucker, owner of Divine Purity Naturals. Her dream of owning her own storefront became a reality Feb. 4 when she formally opened her location at 739 Ashland Terrace.
“This location picked me,” she said. “We’d been approached about having a permanent location before, but didn’t think we’d be able to afford it.”
Divine Purity has operated out of the Chattanooga Market since Tucker first started creating her holistic beauty products in 2012. She quit her job as a loan processor at a high-risk loan company in 2014 to focus on her business full time, and her husband joined her a year later.
While success over the summer and holidays has been ripe for the picking, she said, the lull when the market closed after Christmas each year made for tough times.
Now, with a permanent storefront selling her goods and homemade wares from other artisans in the Chattanooga area, the opportunities seem abundant.
