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Sharon Maxwell-Hendricks looks over some residential building plans soon after moving the office
for her contracting firm, Boanerges Group, into the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs
Center in north Portland.
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THE NEW FORD EDGE
Obstacles for Business Center
continued
from Front
in real estate make it difficult to tell
whether a deal is too good to he true.
“Property is only worth what you
get when you sell it,” says Brooks.
"You have to be on your toes all the
time trying to make ends meet.”
And in working tirelessly to make
deals go through. Brooks has or
chestrated success not only for him
self, but also for many other minor
ity entrepreneurs who have moved
to larger spaces after leaving
O A M E's nest.
As he thinks back to the approxi
mately 1,000 people attending the
last annual OAME conference, he
considers all the headaches worth it
in the quest to make something from
nothing.
Brooks prioritizesopening doors
for other minorities when consider
ing his legacy, “so that they know
it can be done.” He hopes that the
next person to run a minority-busi
ness incubator will make it even
bigger and the next African-Ameri
can president of the PBA will be
able to do even more.
For Simone Brooks, these are
large shoes to fill.
“It’s a little more daunting forme,
because I’m far more realistic now
about what I have ahead of me,” she
says, laughing at the suggestion
that her answer would change with
out her father present. “There’s no
way to have a really good family
business unless everyone can be
open and honest."
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