Talk about the ideal business for the aspiring young entrepreneurial female: a business where travel and shopping is part of the job description! Jennifer Taylor gets to live her dreams through Leopard Park, a home furnishings store she has opened in the Stony Point Shopping Center. As she told Greg Gilligan with the Times-Dispatch: "I go to Atlanta about four times a year to the designer market there. I want to travel and fly to places like Brazil or the Philippines and do the direct buying. But that's down the road."

Taylor investigated locations in Carytown and the Libbie & Grove area but found there were too many stores similar to what she had in mind. She selected the Huguenot Road location because the niche for high-end home furnishings was under-served in Southside, she explained. The store sells lamps, mirrors, artwork, vases, candlehowners and accent furniture. Despite the name, Taylor insists, Leopard Park is not a "safari" store.

Bacon's bottom line: Bummer. Richmond is stuffed to the gills with high-end chick stores. One thing we don't have is a good safari store! Where do you go if you're looking for a Bwana hat, Tarzan loincloth, rhino repellant or a quality mosquito bed netting? There's nothing!