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Small Business Week – South Florida

May 9, 2019 by luxadmin

Small Business Week

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CBS 12 recently aired a segment and Blog Post on Small Business Week; here it is rebroadcast.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs are being recognized this week for the big role they play in communities across the country, including here in South Florida and along the Treasure Coast.

It’s all part of National Small Business Week.

Anyone who owns a business or has attempted to start one knows how difficult and overwhelming it can be; for the owners of the Lighthouse Diner in Jupiter it all started when they inherited the restaurant after their father passed away.

Ryan Perez, one of the three brothers who now own the diner, told us he was just about to open a restaurant in New York when it happened. He made the trip to Jupiter under the assumption the brothers would just fix the diner up and lease it to other owners but soon his plans changed.

“I saw this place and within about a week to ten days, I fell completely in love with it,” he said. “I got my brother on the first plane and we started working.”

Fast forward seven years, they say the diner has become somewhat of a local landmark, one they hope continues to grow.

Perez says the diner, which has a great view of the Jupiter lighthouse, has been around for decades and that part of being a good business owner means staying consistent.

“We are family-owned, home-cooking, affordable for everybody. This has been here since the 1950’s and this has been a landmark here so the thing I was scared about was, I did not want to ruin this name here. I wanted to keep this name going.”

While it is their goal to stay true to what customers know and love, Perez says they’ve also been forced to change with the times. That means learning to take full advantage of social media from a business standpoint.

“I had to learn to do all of that,” he said. “We do all the Instagram, Facebook; we try to get on all the formats.”

Whatever your business may be, Perez said most importantly it’s about being present and having a strong team of support.

“Hands on; be here everyday. If you are an absentee owner, it is hard to get the place off the floor. You have to rely on yourself and your staff.”

Aside from the expected networking benefits that come with joining a local chamber of commerce, there are also free workshops and mentoring opportunities available.

For example, Joseph Catrambone, the CEO at the Stuart Martin County Chamber of Commerce told us they have volunteers who will sit down with aspiring entrepreneurs to offer free consulting and guidance when it comes to drafting a business plan as well as offer workshops on customer service and how to utilize technology.

At the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce, they offer the1909 Business Accelerator which is a startup boot camp that helps train you to start a business. The group meets one night per week for eight weeks. The program also includes personalized mentorships and concludes with “pitch night,” giving entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their business in front of local investors.

The City of Delray Beach’s Office of Economic Development has also declared May as “We Love Small Biz Month.”

There are a lot of free workshops throughout the month that you can take advantage of. Click here for the full list of events.

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Small Business Week

CBS12

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Delray City Market Food Hall to Open Fall 2019

April 9, 2019 by luxadmin

Food Hall Set To Open – Delray City Market

It’s the age of the food hall, and the latest is moving into Delray Beach.

Delray City Market is scheduled to open in fall 2019 on Southeast Third Avenue just south of the city’s busy Atlantic Avenue strip—and it won’t be small. At 30,000-square feet, it will be the base of a four-story building and feature roughly 30 vendor spaces.

Menin Development is expecting to break ground this fall.

“Delray City Market will also be home to highly curated up and coming chefs and food operators who may not have the finances to open their own restaurants in Delray Beach the opportunity to be on display and to serve their signature food to an audience of locals, South Floridians, as well as the millions of visitors who come to Palm Beach County each year,” CEO Craig Menin said in a press release.

In the last year, South Florida has fallen in love with the food hall scene—in Miami, food halls such as La Centrale, 1-800-LUCKY, St. Roch and The Wharf opened to much acclaim with the public clamoring for a space where they can try different foods, explore markets, and bring home new culinary favorites. In February, Palm Beach County was graced with its first food hall with the opening of Grandview Public Market in West Palm Beach.

A massive 30,000-square-foot food hall is taking shape near Delray Beach’s bustling Atlantic Avenue main drag.

Dubbed Delray City Market, the upscale foodie village from real estate developer Craig Menin and longtime South Florida restaurateur Dennis Max will fill the ground floor of a 120,000-square-foot building at 33 SE Third St., about half a block south of Atlantic.

Menin Development expects to break ground this year in time for a summer 2019 opening, partner Marc Yavinsky says. Max, the veteran behind Pompano Beach’s Café Maxx, Delray Beach’s Max’s Harvest and the 7-month-old Prezzo in Boca Raton, will help handle the market’s food and beverage offerings.

Describing the food hall’s interior as “sensory overload,” Yavinsky says Delray City Market will have 30 vendors, 25-foot-high ceilings, live music and art. The four-story building will also include a 3,000-square-foot rooftop garden and a three-level indoor garage with 200 parking spaces, he says.

“We believe that people want a big experience, and we’re all in on the food hall concept,” says Yavinsky. “It’s one of the hottest trends in the country.”

Yavinsky says Max and Menin Development modeled Delray City Market after high-traffic food halls around the country – think Manhattan’s Chelsea Market and San Diego’s Liberty Public Market – as opposed to the series of small and mid-size food halls sprouting up in Miami.

No vendors have signed on yet, although he expects the ground-floor food stalls (about 400 square feet each) will be occupied by “predominantly local” chefs, Yavinsky says. He says Menin and Max are in talks with possible vendors, but declined to name any in a Friday interview.

“We’re not going to have any chain [restaurants] in the food hall,” he says. “They will all be authentic, unique food purveyors.”

Menin Development spent $4.6 million to acquire the property off Atlantic Avenue, originally planned to be the upscale Metropolitan condo project, Yavinsky says.

The arrival of Delray City Market seems to herald a northern push for food halls, after the recent Miami-Dade County debuts this year of La Centrale and Casa Tua Cucina in Brickell, Jackson Food Hall in Miami, 1-800-Lucky in Wynwood and St. Roch Market in the Design District. Plans also are underway for a food hall and brewery on Fort Lauderdale’s Sistrunk Boulevard, and for a pop-up food hall this July in Boynton Beach. Grandview Public Market, a 12-vendor food hall in West Palm Beach, opened in February.

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Boynton Plaza & Delray Business News

January 11, 2019 by luxadmin

Boynton Plaza & Delray Business News

For the past nine months, David Grzech has fielded calls from The UPS Store customers who want to know if the store in the Boynton Plaza is open.

It is. But it’s difficult to tell because the shopping center, anchored by what will be a new, modernized Publix, is under renovation. While the stores are open, except for Publix, the majority of the parking lot is blocked off.

Grzech says the confusion will soon be over, and it will be worth it, because he hopes an updated center will bring more foot traffic.

The Boynton Plaza at Boynton Beach Boulevard and Congress Avenue is the latest shopping center in the city to get a face lift. The two plazas in the Cross Creek Centre on Boynton Beach Boulevard are being renovated, and the Boynton Lakes Plaza and Sunshine Square were redone in recent years.

While the construction has caused headaches for Boynton Plaza’s tenants, they say they can’t complain — too much — because it should bring in additional business.

Boynton’s Principal Planner Ed Breese says it will.

“Modernizing the shopping centers will help attract new tenants and fill the vacancies in the centers that existed before the renovation,” Breese said. “It probably also improves the image of the city from a resident and visitor standpoint and probably anyone else who drives through the city from home to work and sees revitalization.”

Grzech says there is a lot to be happy about at the Boynton Plaza: New LED lighting, a paved ramp in front of the store and more spots in the parking lot.

“It’s exciting. It’s a brand new plaza,” Grzech said. “A state-of-the-art Publix. It will be a good thing.”

That’s what most are excited about: The Publix. It is expected to open in March.

The new store will be 54,000 square feet, which is 18,000 square feet more than the old one. The Publix will have a new color scheme with more earth tones. Each department in the store will be bigger, and it will have a pharmacy.

“Obviously it’s going to be great for the neighborhood,” said Chris Buonadonna, the construction supervisor for Publix. “Everybody’s excited about it reopening.”

Modernizing the Publix was a condition of the grocery store chain resigning the lease, said Tony Davis, a project manager with plaza owner Equity One. The Publix had been there for about 40 years, he estimated.

Less than a mile east of Boynton Plaza is Cross Creek Centre on Boynton Beach Boulevard. While the center hasn’t been there as long as Boynton Plaza, it’s been there for at least 20 years.

Molly Lidke, the office manager at Comfort Care Dental in the centre, said the construction started about a month ago and has caused customers to drive past the location. Plus, she said, she’s had to steer clear of the nails and screws in the parking lot.

But a new roof, awning replacement, painting and a new face for the two adjacent plazas were necessary, Lidke said. Before all that, the center looked the same as when she first started with the office, about 16 years ago.

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Palm Beach Breaks Ground on New Recreation Center

November 12, 2018 by luxadmin

Patience and Persistence Prevailed in Breaking Ground for New Rec Center

After two years and more than 30 Town Council meetings, Palm Beach officials rolled out the red carpet to break ground on the new Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on Seaview Avenue on Monday.

The 17,000-square-foot facility, expected to be completed in November 2019, features multipurpose rooms, a gymnasium, snack room, after-school room, game room, renovated tennis pro shop, and an expanded playground. It will replace the current recreation center. The Morton and Barbara Mandel Foundation, the town and the Friends of Recreation will pay one-third of the total cost, estimated to be $13.8 million. Private donors are picking up the rest of the tab.

“Construction on the center and numerous improvements to Seaview Park are underway,” Deputy Town Manager Jay Boodheshwar told a crowd of about 70 people. “If all goes well, a year from now we’ll have our ribbon-cutting ceremony.”

After students from the Palm Beach Public School and Palm Beach Day Academy led attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance, Boodheshwar opened the ceremony by thanking the Recreation Commission, Architectural Commission and Hedrick Brothers Construction, among others, for their hard work on the lengthy project.

He recounted that Morton Mandel, a Palm Beach resident for more than 50 years, accelerated the idea for improving the recreation center, along with Seaview Park.

Mayor Gail Coniglio, a staunch cheerleader for the project, said the center was a second home for her children on Saturday mornings. She added that it would be a place where children, adults and seniors could find enjoyment together.

“Palm Beach is the very essence of community, and this new rec center is its beating heart,” she said.

Other speakers included Town Council President Danielle Moore and Friends of Recreation co-founders Matt Smith and Mike Ainslie, who spearheaded the fundraising for the rec center. Smith thanked Mandel, as well as the Friends of Recreation for their $4.6 million gift.

“Their persistence and patience has been remarkable,” he said.

Ainslie said because of the new rec center, Palm Beach has “become the envy of towns across the country. The mayor of LaSalle, Colorado, is now begging us for help on their recreation center.”

After approaching the podium to a standing ovation, Morton Mandel said he appreciated the “high-quality way the idea was processed and approved by town leaders,” as well as the fact that the Town Council allowed opponents of the center to air their views at meetings. .

“Those who didn’t like it were able to express their opinions openly,” he said. “This is how it should be in the United States of America.” Mandel, Coniglio and others received plaques commemorating their involvement in the project.

The rec center did not reach approval easily, with contentious debate among town residents and council members, as well as a one-year lawsuit and a budget increase of more than $2 million. Supporters wanted to attract young families with a new center and said that costs to renovate the old one would be more than starting from scratch, while opponents were construction-weary and felt that the old center should just be updated. Councilwoman Julie Araskog told a July council meeting that she felt some documents involving the center were “not transparent.”

Smith and Ainslie are proud of the progress the town has made and said they feel somewhat close to the finish line.

“To have private funding covering two-thirds of the cost, that’s a win right there,” Smith said after the ceremony.

The ceremony concluded with members of the Town Council, Hedrick Brothers, Recreation Commission and Friends of Recreation taking shiny shovels and performing two ceremonial “turnings of the dirt.”

“This is a serious and honest effort to help Palm Beach be a better place to live,” Mandel said.

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Worth Avenue Association Gears up for Holiday Season

November 10, 2018 by luxadmin

Holiday Season Shopping – Palm Beach County

Even though it’s just early November, the Palm Beach season is heating up already — at least based on attendance Wednesday at the monthly Worth Avenue Association meeting. Members had to add chairs to each table in The Colony Pavilion to accommodate all of the guests. About 75 people attended — a dozen or so more than off-season meetings, which typically attract 50 to 60.

Frank Weed, vice president of development and construction for Boca-Raton based Penn-Florida Companies, was one first-time attendee. He spoke to the group about Via Mizner, a luxury hotel and residential complex in Boca Raton that his company is developing in partnership with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.

Weed gave attendees a closer look at the project, which will include boutique stores and a Michelin three-star restaurant and is expected to attract Palm Beach clientele, he said.

The hotel group has joined the Worth Avenue Association as an affiliate member, a membership area that association President Ashley Berry hopes to grow this season. Affiliate businesses aren’t necessarily in Palm Beach but could form partnerships with Worth Avenue stores to contribute to growth for the stores and the affiliates, Berry said after the meeting.

Debra Vasilopoulos, vice chairwoman of the Town of Palm Beach United Way Board of Trustees, also spoke, thanking the association for selecting the Town of Palm Beach United Way as its “charity of choice” this year. “The United Way is connected to Worth Avenue in several ways, from its business and store owners, to its shoppers and community partners, many of whom donate to our annual campaign,” Vasilopoulos said. “We are grateful, and we’re looking forward to a wonderful season.”

Gregg Beletsky, founder of Turtle Tuesdays, later gave an update on the group’s beach cleanups, which rid area beaches of about 14,000 pounds of debris from August to October.

Berry also announced that Rick Rose’s historic walking tours of Worth Avenue will resume Dec. 5. Tour subjects include Worth Avenue’s influence on the fashion world and its architectural importance.

A new marketing initiative called Wednesdays on Worth also kicks off Dec. 5. Through Jan. 30, the weekly event will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Association members are encouraged to participate by offering incentives to customers.

Other upcoming events include the grand opening of a Tory Burch store on Monday and the street’s Christmas Tree Lighting on Nov. 27.

Palm Beach shopping:

New Worth Avenue shop to blend online and brick-and-mortar retail

E-commerce continues to show double-digit growth, according to surveys. But two Palm Beach entrepreneurs are betting that brick-and-mortar retail can still thrive with a little creative thinking.

They aim to blend the digital with the physical in their new shop at the Esplanade on Worth Avenue — Launch Pad. The store, opening Tuesday, will feature a rotating product line comprised largely from companies — both local and national — that have relied on Internet sales.

“There’s been a lack of cutting-edge choices” in Palm Beach, said Nicole Munder, who co-founded Launch Pad along with her partner, Katherine Lande. “There are so many emerging brands that don’t have the luxury to take up brick-and-mortar space. We give them access to this demographic. We thought it would be a good time to introduce something experiential, and this is where retail is beginning to trend.

“Our space will look like a living room, with a dining room table and a bar. We want to welcome customers with a full experience.”

Launch Pad’s November-December calendar features more than a dozen retailers that ordinarily would be found only online, plus four “semi-permanent” vendors such as Circa Who in West Palm Beach, a seller of vintage furniture. The furniture is used in Launch Pad as part of its “living room” look but will all be for sale. When one piece goes out, another will come in.

“The space changes like an art gallery,” Munder said.

From Nov. 24 to Dec. 2, three retailers will be setting up shop in the 1,600-square-foot space including La Ligne — fashions “based on the classic stripe,” according to Lande.

At the same time, Lande and Munder will bring in “Cover Swim” — a company that sells “sun-conscious swimwear,” Munder said. “It isn’t your traditional bikini. It’s stylized swim guards, leggings — items you can wear in the sun and have full protection and still look chic.”

The same week, an online magazine and e-commerce site called the Editorialist will sell accessories, jewelry and handbags.

For Kelly Rooney, founder of the online jewelry and accessories store Josephine Alexander Collective, displaying her products at Launch Pad on Dec. 3-10 will mean exposure in a new segment of the market.

“It’s going to be a different kind of traffic,” said Rooney, who lives in Juno Beach. “It’s good to showcase your products to a customer base that you wouldn’t ordinarily have. I’m a huge online shopper, which is why I sell online; but I know a lot of people are traditional and they want to see it, feel it, try it on before they take that jump and buy it.”

Brick-and-mortar retail, she said, will never go away because “it’s a social thing. The reason I enjoy going to stores is the same reason I like going to restaurants — you go out, you see people. Online shopping for me is a time thing. Even if I’m sitting on a plane, it gives me a chance to check things off my to-do list.”

Physical retail and e-commerce will always be competitors, she said, “but I think they each have their own place.”

Palm Beach jewelry designer Allegra Fanjul Garcia-Velez, who owns the online store Very Allegra, will be a repeat vendor at Launch Pad. In an email, she said she hopes the shop “will open a new channel of my business.” Most of her sales have been online and at trunk shows, she said, and this will allow her to “personally connect” with customers.

Other themed presentations may run for three weeks or just a day or two, Munder said. “But the whole idea is that every week the store feels a little different.”

Vendors may pay a flat fee for appearing at the store, or a percentage of the sales might go to Launch Pad. “It’s similar to a trunk show model,” said Lande. “We design a package for the vendor.”

Over the Christmas holiday period, an e-retailer called Orchard Mile will be featured. The business was recently described as “a luxury digital mall” by Forbes magazine. Offering more than 150 contemporary and designer brands, it has partnered with other digital retailers in order to give shoppers a chance to buy online without jumping to other websites.

“Clearly they’re missing some of the benefits of brick and mortar, because they’ve booked with us for four weeks,” Munder said. “They will be rotating their merchandise every week.”

The owners say they would like Launch Pad to become “a destination” in town, a place for people to stop in for a drink or a cup of coffee and relax while their friends might be shopping at other stores.

The schedule of vendors runs through December and new calendars will be issued through the season, but Munder and Lande — who have backgrounds at Vogue magazine and Palm Beach Illustrated, respectively — plan to be around long-term.

“We have plans for the summer, but we don’t want to announce them yet,” Munder said. “We don’t want to be a pop-up store.”

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