Thanks to the “equitable development”-focused collaboration between Capitol Hill Housing and Africatown Community Land Trust, Earl’s Cuts was able to stay in the now-gentrified neighborhood that Earl Lancaster has operated out of since 1992.
“We’re still here.”
On a recent afternoon, as rush-hour traffic swells along 23rd Avenue, Lancaster seems entirely settled in. He trims a client’s beard while on a TV screen the Kansas Jayhawks take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. A couple of people wait in chairs nearby, including a father who barters with his son, already in the hairdresser’s chair. “One inch? No, two. Or three,” he says.
Earl Lancaster, the owner of Earl's Cuts and Style, trims a customer's beard at his barbershop in Seattle's Central District, Feb. 23, 2020. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
Even though Earl’s is well-known, Lancaster applied to the Legacy Business program to “put a dot on it and cross the T’s,” he says, sitting down after the trim. He wants to make sure everyone knows about how he’s been in the neighborhood for decades, how the shop offers free “back-to-school” haircuts for youth. And also to show that “We’re still here. We haven’t been displaced,” Lancaster says. “If we all come together, stay rooted in our soil, it makes a difference.”
Lancaster financed the move and interior of the new shop with a fundraising campaign, as well as a $50,000 grant through a tenant-improvement fund piloted by the Office of Economic Development. But that fund is separate from the Legacy Business program, according to the OED, and wouldn’t apply to many Legacy Businesses anyway.
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