Stories
Profiles, place stories and social enterprise stories from São Paulo.
Mercadão at 90+: who keeps São Paulo's landmark market running
Iconic 1933 market central to SP food/commerce identity; represents heritage retail under modern pressure
Bom Retiro's layered garment district: from Jewish tailors to Korean-Brazilian wholesale
Explains a major SP commercial cluster's immigrant-driven evolution
After Elo7: where do Brazil's handmade sellers go now
Directly relevant to Dear Network's craft/artisan storyline; a live gap in the ecosystem worth tracking
Preta Hub's economics: measuring São Paulo's Black creative economy
AfroHub) and the annual festival
Pix as small-business lifeline: a São Paulo merchant's-eye view
Concrete national statistic (Sebrae survey) begs a ground-level story about how individual SP merchants use Pix day to day
Cubo Itaú at 10+: does São Paulo's biggest startup hub deliver for founders outside the building
Speaks to São Paulo's claim as Latin America's top startup ecosystem
São Paulo's periphery-culture grants: who actually wins the funding
R$14M)
Feira da Liberdade at 50: a fair built by and for São Paulo's Japanese-Brazilian community
Long-running (since 1975)