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Get Ready for Spiced Up Downtown Sacramento

The winner of this year’s Calling All Dreamers competition, Heather Wong, is planning on opening her specialty spices shop in downtown Sacramento early in the new year. The contest awarded a prize package worth $100,000 to the best retail business plan, presented by the Downtown Sacramento Foundation.

A location has been secured for the spice shop at 1125 11th Street. The location was the former home of a Merle Norman Cosmetics store, and is close to Chops restaurant in downtown.

The name has gone through a change from the original proposed in the contest entry. The first name it had was “Sacramento Spice Emporium.” Then it was altered to “Spice Station Sacramento.” Now the shop will go by the catchy “Allspicery.”

According to a press release from the Downtown Sacramento Foundation, the business will “be the first one-stop spice shop in Sacramento, offering a curated selection of spices, salts, teas and proprietary house-made spice blends sourced from around the world.”