Real Estate Blog

Bipeds of Brookland

Introducing the people who make Brookland their home, one step at a time. We'll highlight one member of our community each week, photographed and interviewed by Tom Sabella, who came to Brookland in 1995 and still hasn't left.

In 2005 Sara Lucas retired from working for the Superior Court and began to work every day at her flower shop, Petals, Ribbons and Beyond. “My grandmother had rosebushes when I was growing up in South Carolina and I used to love the rosebushes but every week I would get stung by a bee because the bees would come to get the pollen off the roses. So I have always been around flowers outdoors and then I was offered an opportunity in 1988 to buy into a flower business I had 3 other partners, the shop was called Fabulous Gifts and Florals and we were in the 3600 block of 12th street… but all of my partners left and I was the only one that stuck it out because I love what I was doing. Now I’m here at this location and have a good customer based. It’s been said Brookland is like a little small town within a large city. It’s so much fun to live, work and play in your own neighborhood and you don’t have to go anywhere else. And if you think about it you can almost do everything in Brookland that you would do anywhere else.”