In February, hundreds of people flowed through a sprawling Delmar Loop storefront. Urban Chestnut had brewed a specialty beer with ginger extract called Moon Monkey for the event, and the crowd was heavy on artists and budding entrepreneurs who came in part to celebrate the Lunar New Year but also to get a first look at the future home of a new retail store/workshop/business incubator called Create Space that was to cater the St. Louis area's growing "creative economy."
Create Space has taken off in the months since with craft workers and artists selling their pieces from within the wide-open showroom as they learn how to run their small businesses through on-site classes in marketing, branding, legal and more. There are plans for sister operations called Kitchen Space and Make Space on Olive Boulevard.…