Clairmonte Cummings, the 25-year-old Operations Director at United Investment Trading is an International Business graduate of Florida International University and the most senior executive of what, arguably, is the country’s single largest department store.
More accurately, the five-storey building standing on 60,000 square feet of real estate at the south-eastern corner of Camp and Regent streets houses three stores that were once separate business houses – Essential Shopping Complex, Footsteps and Home and Beyond. Inside the same space there is a café called Upper Crust, a pharmacy, a Western Union outlet, a Chester Fried franchise and a facility that offers cellular phones and accessories. Still under construction on the sixth floor of the shiny new complex is a restaurant already named Gravity Lounge.
Taken together it is a mammoth undertaking and ‘the boss’ is a