The inaugural Greater Perimeter Chamber Annual Meeting celebrated the launch of a new era in business leadership across Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, and the broader Perimeter region. This pivotal event unveiled their bold vision for the future and clarified what the Chamber stands FOR: business growth, innovation, and collaboration.
Kevin Brown, Owner, Hounds Town Sandy Springs
Offering fully interactive doggie daycare, overnight dog boarding, and pet spa services, Hounds Town – Atlanta – Sandy Springs is the place for dogs to be dogs!
With expansive play areas for all day play, large luxury suites for overnight dog boarding, and a pampering doggie day spa offering bathing services, Hounds Town is a town designed just for dogs. 
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TRANSCRIPT
Intro: Broadcasting live from the greater perimeter. It’s time for Greater Perimeter Chamber Spotlight. Now, here’s your host.
Lee Kantor: Lee Kantor here. Broadcasting live from the Greater Perimeter Chamber inaugural annual meeting. So excited to be talking to my next guest, Kevin Brown with Hounds Town, Sandy Springs. Welcome.
Kevin Brown: Thank you very much.
Lee Kantor: Well, we’re asking everybody, why are you for the greater perimeter chamber?
Kevin Brown: Oh, great question. I think it’s the relationships you build in the in the perimeter chamber, the network of people that you meet, the. I’m actually meeting a potential banker here at lunch.
Lee Kantor: They had to bring everybody together. Like, this is so important. And it’s so good for local businesses because, you know, what more efficient way to meet your neighbors than here in a chamber event. Exactly.
Kevin Brown: It’s local. It’s it’s it’s your neighbors. It’s you never know which severe event is going to turn you into the next thing.
Lee Kantor: So tell us about Hounds Town, Sandy Springs, how you serving, folks?
Kevin Brown: We’re a doggy daycare and boarding facility. We also offer spa services. Everything shy of hair cutting, but it’s a great way to get your dog out to get some, you know, burn off that puppy energy. Relax. You can go off and run your errands and your your dog is happy playing in a pack environment and getting that stimulation that they really need.
Lee Kantor: So what’s your backstory? How did you get involved in this line of work?
Kevin Brown: It was a weirdly it was fun. It’s a franchise. And I was leaving corporate America and had a relatively good sized 401 K that I had to roll over. And what better way to reinvest it than put it back into yourself?
Lee Kantor: So do you mind sharing some advice for folks that were in your situation, like, how did you come up with Hounds Town? Like, what was that like kind of deciding what your next chapter would be?
Kevin Brown: Someone reached out to me on LinkedIn initially and said, have you ever thought about working for yourself? And I said, yes. And I was familiar with the franchise model. The company I just left was actually a mechanical contracting franchise. And, you know, as we were narrowing it down, he ran me through a couple of personality quizzes and some things about where’s your passion sit. And my wife and I do a tremendous amount of volunteering with the Atlanta Humane Society, already fostering kittens, and we looked into fostering dogs. We’re not as successful with that. Our fosters tend to turn.
Lee Kantor: There’s no there’s no cat spa.
Kevin Brown: We do we do for cats is actually that was the first revenue that we received was a couple of a couple was renovating their tub and needed to get their cats out of their house. So we took them to the facility.
Lee Kantor: So you have an area for cats and we do. That’s a smaller subset of your business, very much smaller. So, um, what was that, a big leap once you did this? Do you are you enjoying this part of this chapter more than is more fulfilling? In some ways, I would imagine.
Kevin Brown: Yeah, it’s it’s working locally. So I’m an energy engineer by training and by trade mostly. Um, so I go out to buildings and renovate them and make them more efficient. The difficulty is I have to go to the building. You can’t come to me. Right?
Lee Kantor: So you got that going as a consultancy as well, I do. Oh, wow.
Kevin Brown: Um, so having this business, being local, meeting my local business neighbors, uh, we’re actually looking at doing, like, a small business. Bingo. You know, for the businesses around us so that people can go and, you know, fill out these little stamps on a card, get.
Lee Kantor: Everybody exactly meeting everybody. Yeah. That’s great. So what do you need more of? How can we help you?
Kevin Brown: We’re always looking for more customers, more people that need to either board or daycare their dog and reap the rewards and benefits.
Lee Kantor: So the ideal person is somebody who lives or works near where you’re, um.
Kevin Brown: Exactly. Yeah. The convenience of the doggy daycare is if it’s if it’s either near your neighborhood or along your commute. Right.
Lee Kantor: So that’s, that’s the ideal customer for you.
Kevin Brown: It is. Yeah.
Lee Kantor: And then if somebody wants to learn more and have more substantive conversation with the team, what’s the website? What’s the best way to connect?
Kevin Brown: The best way to connect is actually give us a call at the shop. Um, phone number is (770) 674-2226. Or you can reach us online at houndstone. Actually, it’s better to just Google it Hounsdown Sandy Springs.
Lee Kantor: So if you Google Hounds Town Sandy Springs, they’ll find you. Yeah. Well, Kevin, thank you so much for sharing your story today.
Kevin Brown: Thank you very much.
