Eight-Year-Old Opens Slime Shop at RiverTown Crossings
Luna-Belle Meza, age 8, turned her homemade slime hustle into a real storefront inside the Grandville mall — and she wants to share the space with other young entrepreneurs.
Eight-year-old Luna-Belle Meza has gone from making and selling slime out of her kitchen to signing a storefront lease at RiverTown Crossings Mall in Grandville. Her shop is now open, and she's said she hopes the space can also serve other kid-run businesses. It's a bright spot for a mall that, like malls everywhere, has been fighting vacancies.
RiverTown Crossings just got its youngest tenant. Luna-Belle Meza, an eight-year-old from the Grand Rapids area, has opened a slime shop inside the Grandville mall, according to WZZM 13. It started small — Luna-Belle making batches and selling them herself — and grew into a business that could support a physical storefront. That's a jump most adult entrepreneurs never make.
The timing matters. Malls across the country have been battling empty anchor spaces and shrinking foot traffic, and RiverTown Crossings has felt that pressure too. A kid-run business choosing to sign a lease there is a different kind of draw: families browsing slime instead of heading straight for the exit. For anyone already making the trip to Grandville, it's a new reason to stop.
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Luna-Belle has said she doesn't want the shop to be just hers. She's expressed interest in using the space to support other young entrepreneurs — kids with products, ideas, and no obvious place to sell them. If that takes shape, it could turn one small storefront into something closer to a launchpad.
We're following up to confirm the shop's exact location inside the mall, hours, and pricing. If you visit before we do, tell us what you find.
