JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Blood, sweat and tears went into building Jennifer Ness and Lauren Henry's business, The Greenhouse Bar.
"It was our vision from the ground up," Ness said. "We outfitted it like our retail space. It's our passion."
The call it their mobile plant shop.
Ness and Henry said someone stole their trailer from outside their home in Avondale Saturday while they were at dinner.
"You go through a whole gamut of emotions, but definitely one is disbelief and shock, you know, and I was personally kind of numb. I couldn’t believe it and then you go into spiral like how do you recover from this," Ness said.
Ness and Henry said their trailer got their business through COVID. They built it, and take it to markets and sell plants, T-shirts and other merchandise out of the trailer.
They're in the process of opening up a permanent location in the next month that will also have beer, wine and food. Ness and Henry said the trailer was packed full because they were moving merchandise to the new space.
Neighbors provided surveillance videos that appear to show the trailer attached to the back of an SUV driving through the area around 6:30 Saturday night.
“You know, now you’re just angry because now we have to go through all of this and do all of these things," Ness said.
"Our main focus should be the bar right now and getting it open and it’s like this has kind of halted us and now we’re trying to recoup what we’ve lost,” Henry said.
Ness and Henry filed a police report with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. First Coast News requested the reports related to the incident from JSO.
Friends set up a GoFundMe to help them in them in the meantime. If you see the trailer, you're asked to email the owners at lauren@thegreenhousebar.com, or reach out to The Greenhouse Jax on Instagram.