Procure, a new shopping collaboration from City Foundry STL and The Women’s Creative, is set to open this February, offering wares from a variety of local, women-owned businesses. This collective of boutiques has an emphasis on wellness and self-care, featuring skincare and beauty products, apparel, accessories, and home goods.
The Women’s Creative is a collective with the mission of growing and nurturing women-owned businesses, and has provided vendor market services, business-development subscriptions, and educational courses to help these creative businesses meet their goals and aid in further success.
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Procure is a new, permanent version of the Procure marketplace, a vendor market hosted by City Foundry STL in 2021. More than 500 creative, women-owned businesses were featured in the events, which took place one Saturday a month from March through October.
“The shop itself is an extension of our vendor market, which has been around for about five years,” says Christina Weaver, co-owner of Procure. “It will feature close to 30 women-owned businesses, all product-based, in a kind of community boutique environment.”
Along with shopping from these creative boutiques, there is a strong emphasis placed on community-building through cultivating unique shopping experiences and a locally based market. “The experience itself will both be centered around shopping creative, women-owned businesses [and] on coming together as a community,” says Weaver. To that end, the space will also provide an in-store community meeting place.
Especially after working with City Foundry STL for previous vendor market events, shop owners believed it would be the ideal location to house Procure, both for its physical location and the ideals that City Foundry STL holds as an organization.
“We’re very excited about other businesses that are opening up at City Foundry,” says Weaver. “And then we feel like a lot of the values that City Foundry is pursuing and the things that they want for that space are aligned with who we are–values like innovation, inclusion, celebrating and having fun and being a place for people to come together, meet each other and be seen.”
By aiding in the success of local, women-owned businesses, Weaver believes that Procure can both promote success and have a domino effect in building and brightening the St. Louis community. “We really believe shopping to support women supports and lifts our entire community,” she says. “So, prioritizing that is hugely beneficial for all of St. Louis.”
