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"I visited a new woman- and minority-owned food hall billing itself as the first of its kind in Prince George’s County, Maryland; Savor at Studio 3807 celebrated its grand opening in Brentwood after welcoming customers a week earlier and a marketing representative says all its vendors are up-and-running. The project, located in the Studio 3807 apartments on Rhode Island Avenue, is led by April N. Richardson — a business lawyer who grew the D.C. Sweet Potato Cake bakery — and she says she launched the hall after being rejected from several others; the market is partnered with developer Peter Siegel. Savor claims to be only the second black-owned food hall in the United States and positions itself as an incubator for local chefs and a resource for a Brentwood community that was previously designated a food desert (though 2015 USDA data shows the area is not technically a food desert, likely due to a Shopper’s grocery store in nearby Colmar Manor, it remains part of a low-income tract). It opens at 6:30 a.m. for breakfast, serves food until 10 p.m., and serves drinks until midnight." - Gabe Hiatt