This OTR accelerator is ready for its next class

“We attracted people from lots of different communities, and we didn’t want to exclude anyone because this kind of growth is happening in lots of different communities,” Woods told me. “Now we’re at a point where we have businesses in other communities and they’re taking what they learned home with them so our mission is spreading even faster.” That’s led Mortar to expand its horizons and look at replicating its program in other parts of the city. That’s just in the planning stages, though...