It was January 2020, and Laura Snakenberg was at the doorstep to her dream.
A hairdresser for more than two decades, she’d signed a lease on what she planned to turn into her first salon. Having noticed a salon already in the same building, though, she told the landlord that she didn’t want to “step on toes.”
Snakenberg said the night she signed the lease, the landlord called and said the salon operator, a tenant for 16 years, had “hit the roof” when he broke the news. She said she and the landlord talked and agreed that the best option for all parties was to tear up the contract.
“I sat and cried folding the laundry that night,” she recalled.
Snakenberg said she endured a few more false starts during the next couple of years, but her fortunes finally took a turn late this past year. She’s set to open her new business, 3Eleven Collective on Saturday at 7633 E. Brainerd Road.