Blue Pearl Candle, a candle shop and candle bar in downtown Homewood, officially celebrated its grand opening with the village of Homewood on Friday, Oct. 17. Blue Pearl owner Kim Rowe said she was “beyond happy” because moving her business to the downtown area has long been a goal of hers and she achieved it after years of hard work.
Blue Pearl first opened on the northern edge of Dixie Highway in Homewood near Balagio Ristorante and the Calumet Metra station in January 2022. Rowe said the store’s visibility at that location was greatly inferior to its current location at 2050 Ridge Road.
“Whenever there was a retail opening, [the village] would send me a list. I would contact the building owner. I’d go take a look and figure out whether or not it was a good spot for me,” Rowe said. “Some of them were way too expensive. […] But this place was very reasonably priced and it’s in a prime location.”…