{"id":10553,"date":"2023-06-14T16:08:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/?p=10553"},"modified":"2023-06-14T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:22:05","slug":"rocky-shores-tattoo-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/rocky-shores-tattoo-company\/","title":{"rendered":"ROCKY SHORES TATTOO COMPANY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<p><strong>ROCKY SHORES TATTOO COMPANY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>554 West Main Rd, Middletown, RI 02842 <strong>\u25cf <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:RockyShoresTattoo@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RockyShoresTattoo@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jen Beirola is an Air Force veteran who has been tattooing for more than 20 years and operated a successful tattoo parlor when she was stationed in Omaha, Nebraska. In early 2022, when she returned to Rhode Island, she contacted the RISBDC looking for assistance opening a tattoo parlor after finding a promising building in Middletown.<\/p>\n<p>While working on plans to secure the building, Jen worked with a local lender who required her to submit a business plan and financial projections. Upon the recommendation of her lender, Jen connected with RISBDC Director, Greater Newport Region, Paul Harden.<\/p>\n<p>Paul helped Jen refine the business plan to ensure it contained the information lenders sought. He also helped develop financial projections that showed both the start-up expenses and the growth of the business after it opened.<\/p>\n<p>The property purchase was a complex transaction as it was a 1031 exchange tied to Jen\u2019s former store in Omaha. Still, fortunately, she had both a lender and an attorney who were familiar with this type of transaction. As a result, Rocky Shores Tattoo Company officially opened in November 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKY SHORES TATTOO COMPANY 554 West Main Rd, Middletown, RI 02842 \u25cf RockyShoresTattoo@gmail.com Jen Beirola is an Air Force veteran who has been tattooing for more than 20 years and operated a successful tattoo parlor when she was stationed in Omaha, Nebraska. In early 2022, when she returned to Rhode Island, she contacted the RISBDC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":10554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10564,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions\/10564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}