- Boston Globe:
Faith-based salon seeks urban renewal
Boston's newest hair salon with black leather chairs and personal 15-inch flat-screen televisions with satellite link for each customer is not on Newbury Street but in a tiny church located on a bumpy road in south Dorchester. It is to be a Gospel-friendly place where anyone can get a hairstyling and where some might come to God.
Pastor Montgomery opened a hair salon in Dorchester (Photo Credit: David L. Ryan/ Globe Staff) ''You come to the salon, you might come to church," said Pastor Antoine Montgomery, 35, whose church and adjacent hair salon are on Norfolk Street.
The salon is Prayer Tower's first foray into business, and it is hoping for profits to supplement church finances. It is also the beginning of a plan to buy $1 million in properties along a stretch of abandoned, trash-laden land between Milton and Woodrow avenues and convert them into what Montgomery describes as a well-landscaped Christian zone. Plans call for a children's gym, a shelter for pregnant teens and battered women, a teen center, a children's mentor program, an upscale banquet hall, a fitness center, and a new church.
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