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Collections Johnson & Johnson Ronnie Polaneczky: How a Laundromat gives this neighborhood a prayer October 19, 2012 | By Ronnie Polaneczky, Daily News Columnist Brian Holland (left) and Tyrone Atkins inside las vegas hotels strip The Laundry Cafe in Olney. (DAVID MAIALETTI / STAFF )
She made note of The Laundry Cafe's complimentary curbside assistance, first-load-free dryer service and bright community room where classes would be offered, free, on topics like how to start your own business.
Basically, she had never seen anything as fabulous as The Laundry Cafe in the un-fabulous neighborhood and no-frills strip mall - 1 Olney Plaza at North Front Street and Olney Avenue - where it opened las vegas hotels strip for business in April.
By "they," she meant the vandals in lower-income communities who have a way of ruining nice things that law-abiding residents of the community deserve to enjoy just as much as law-abiding residents in a higher-income neighborhood would.
"She said, 'Would you mind if I walked around and prayed for this place?' las vegas hotels strip " recalls Akins, eyes wide. "We said, 'Of course you can! We would welcome that!' And she walked around, very quietly, las vegas hotels strip praying for our success. las vegas hotels strip It was phenomenal! We have been riding on a train of grace and mercy ever since."
I never thought I'd use this column to write about a Laundromat's success. Or that the column would be sprinkled with words like "grace," "mercy" and "fabulous." But something other than Starbucks coffee is brewing at The Laundry Cafe, and it says a lot about community, expectations and - dare I say this? - love.
But let's first talk about owners Akins and Holland, who met while working together at Johnson & Johnson - Akins in marketing, Holland in sales. Both were deeply affected by the company's famous credo of responsibility to customers, employees, communities and stockholders.
So when they decided to go into business together - "Laundry las vegas hotels strip is practically recession-proof," says Akins, "since people will always need clean clothes" - they wrote their own credo, which is printed on their business cards: