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Fashion designer Lennard Taylor with clothes he has manufactured on display at Launch It!, he is one of the seven young entrepreneurs featured. The Downtown Winnipeg Business Improvement Zone is launching a three-week pilot project called Launch It! to assess the need for a Youth Entrepreneurship Incubator in the downtown. Over the next three weeks, 7 small business who are interested in establishing a permanent presence in the downtown will operate pop-up stores in Portage Place Shopping Centre next to the Carlton Street skywalk to sell their products and services and to gauge public interest. Murray McNeill story Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press March 25 2014