Meet our Empresarios: Tienda Doña Maria

Hacienda CDC’s Empresarios programming supports entrepreneurs to start, grow, and scale their businesses. Read more about our featured Empresario and learn about our amazing community of small business owners.

Country of Origin:
Sinaloa, Mexico

Significance of Name: 
The store name is a tribute to the mother’s name.

Goals for Business: 
Brendas goal is to someday be able to grow her business enough to offer a job to community members and to potentially be able to have to give out scholarships to students and people who are in the financial need or with obstacles which limit their resources such as DACA.     

Meet Brenda Reyes

She is the owner of Tienda Doña Maria. Brenda moved to the U.S. in 1995, and is a current DACA recipient. She grew up in the NE Cully neighborhood all her life, alongside her family. As she grew up, she realized there was a lack of stores that offered products from Latin America and the services that her community used. This is what sparked her entrepreneurship. Her goal to provide for the neighborhood and surrounding areas to help out those who had limitations with regards to travel and the language barrier.

Tienda Doña Maria

Tienda Doña Maria is a Mexican grocery store where you can find phone cards, money transfers, pay bills, shipments and much more! Established in 2009, the store has supplied the community around Hacienda CDC’s headquarters with groceries, and services which commonly used.