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Magic Leap – Experience a Hotel Before You Get There

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Magic Leap’s new feature will let you experience your hotel before you get there

Magic Leap has raised $2.6 billion and employs more than 1,600 people, with the majority at its Plantation headquarters. The company, which was founded in 2011, has not released sales on its first product. Tech industry publications have reported that sales have been slower than expected. Magic Leap has declined to comment.
Want to check out a resort in Aruba before you book? Now, using a special wearable computer, you’ll be able to immerse yourself at a great international destination before actually flying there.

The feature, or a location-based experience, is one of the new applications being touted by Plantation-based Magic Leap. The company on Tuesday announced an updated version of its Magic Leap One product, googles that provide “spatial computing,” or a computer-generated interactive experience.
In 2020, JetBlue Vacations will offer the chance for customers to explore one of their premier international hotel destinations using Magic Leap One. “The experiences bring the digital world into live events and physical spaces,” Magic Leap said in a news release.
Other ways to showcase the feature include pop-up experiences or permanent installations at sports venues, museums, trade shows and college campuses, Magic Leap said.
“We believe spatial computing has limitless potential to positively impact our lives,” said Rony Abovitz, founder and CEO of Magic Leap, in a news release.

The technology “is a seamless blend of the digital and the physical,” said Carlos Penzini, senior vice president at Magic Leap, last week told the audience at ITPalooza, a South Florida technology event.

“We’re now live in a world where you don’t have to play Fortnite on a screen. You can be running down Las Olas playing Fortnite,” Penzini said.
Magic Leap’s goal is to eliminate the need for screens, such as mobile phones, TVs and laptops for interactive technology experiences. “We’re going to look back on this era where we have screens and say ‘why did we have screens?’ This is so much better,” he said.

The company said Tuesday that its business version of Magic Leap’s wearable computer, priced at $2,995 — a $700 more expensive than its first model — also could be used for modeling buildings, generating virtual bodies for use by medical students and in surgery, staging houses for sales, and training workers.

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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/plantation/fl-bz-magic-leap-latest-apps-20191210-sednz4r7dzbypi5bgccac2lnpq-story.html

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Women Owned Business Dominate Plaza

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Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners Dominate Boynton Beach Plaza

In an article published by the PBP they point to a Boynton Beach CRA business plaza where the tenants are mostly women entrepreneurs.  This is an exciting time in Boynton Beach and with  creative businesses being launched it is only going to get better – It’s a great time to be opening a business in Boynton Beach!

Anita Znaor, a 47-year-old single mom and native of Croatia, who worked in the service and restaurant industry for 24 years until her two sons became college age. “Okay, it’s my time,” Znaor said she decided. “I wanted to run a business myself.”

In March 2018, Znaor opened Deep Ocean Reef Bar & Grill, a family-style restaurant with a bit of European flair and a menu where everything is made from scratch.  “Most people that come here, I don’t lose,” Znaor said.

After a slow start, Znaor said business is “really good.” She attributes that success to her background in the industry. Prior to opening her restaurant, Znaor worked in the cruise industry and also did everything from bartending to waiting tables.
“I always tell people, if you don’t know the entire business, you shouldn’t start it,” Znaor said.

Michelle Gingold, 30, knows what she’s doing. She developed her culinary chops by attending The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale then apprenticing for six years at area restaurants and bakeries.  More than two years ago, Gingold opened Del Sol Bakery along with her younger sister, Melisa, who has a business degree and helps on that side of the business.  Del Sol opened with only a half-dozen pastries on its menu. Now you can get sandwiches, made-to-order cakes and espresso. The bakery has added two employees since its first muffin was baked.  “It’s a lot of work,” Michelle Gingold said. You do everything. It’s not just the baking. We do all the accounting, the managing, anything that comes up. But we also get the freedom of getting to experiment and explore different things. If we want want to try a different bread or flavor of scone, we can do that.”  Gingold and the other women in the plaza have formed something of a symbiotic relationship. The bakery, for instance, sells its bread to Znaor’s restaurant.  “We look out for each other,” said Trellanie Bray-Poole, owner of Boynton Beach Wine & Spirits.

Among the plaza’s six female store owners, Bray-Poole choice of business venture stands out. Although statistics are hard to come by, female owners of liquor stores appear rare. Bray-Poole said she’s the only one she knows.  Bray-Poole also runs a side bail-bond business and is the mother of two, including a 15-year-old daughter who can be found at her mom’s shop after school doing homework.
“I have a different drive that pushes me,” Bray-Poole said.

Bray-Poole has owned her store for more than a year and said it’s “really taken off,” which she thinks is partly a result of her “trusting our customers” to touch the store’s products, while competitors have their merchandise behind glass or other barriers.
A graduate of Santaluces High School, Bray-Poole grew up in the neighborhood surrounding her store and said part of her responsibility is to mentor young people in the area.  So when someone under 21 comes into her shop and tries to purchase alcohol illegally, they receive no booze but they do get an earful of straight talk.
“Hearing it from a woman who grew up in the same neighborhood, they go out smiling,” Bray-Poole said. “People say I’m a role model, but I just try to provide encouragement, showing them that the things they think they can’t do, they can.”

The other female business owners at Ocean Palm Plaza are:

— Esraa Dashti, 33, originally from Kuwait who opened Flora Beauty Supply a little over a year ago. “This was my childhood dream,” said Dashti, who immigrated to the U.S. eight years ago.

–- LaShaunte Black, 31, of Boynton Beach, said opening Shaunte Hair Kisses Salon was “overwhelming” and she thought of shutting down a few times. Three years later, Black is still at it. “You just have to keep the faith and know what you want to happen is going to happen,” Black said.

–- Yzala Joseph, from Haiti, is a graduate of Santaluces High and Palm Beach State College and handles accounting, bookkeeping and tax preparation.

The plaza is in the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency district. The CRA is tasked with fostering redevelopment by, for instance, providing grants to small business owners.

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 Source:

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20191009/around-half-of-businesses-at-this-boynton-plaza-are-women-owned

Business Incubator – Boynton Beach

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Business Incubator – New City Hall

There’s a lot going on in Boynton Beach; Business Incubator gets green light!

In a story reported recenlty in the Palm Beach Post – excerpted below there are great expectations for the business incubator being that is being included in the new city hall.

If the world’s next multibillion-dollar startup — think Apple or Amazon — is being created inside the garage of a Boynton Beach home, the city has plans to help.

During its Sept. 5 meeting, the city commission approved a proposal to donate 2,000 square feet in the new city hall for a “business incubator” that’s designed to assist local entrepreneurs in getting their fledgling companies up and running.

While key details have yet to be worked out — including who will operate the incubator — the general idea is to provide local small business owners with a wide range of services, such as legal advice, marketing strategies, business plan development, in a shared space.

One way the incubator might work, city officials say, is for participants to apply for positions and “graduate” from the program after their businesses grow to a point where they need to hire additional employees to continue operations.

“We understand that local small businesses are a driver in our economy,” said David Scott, director of economic development and strategy. “Locals hire locals, whether they’re family members, kids in the neighborhood or other residents and, when that happens, the city thrives.”

Aim is to help business owners get to the next level

The city already has grant programs to assist existing businesses, but the incubator is geared for, say, the baker whose cupcake orders are getting too big for a residential kitchen.

At the incubator, that baker might share a commercial kitchen with others, while gaining insight that will allow that business, in Scott’s words, to “get to the next level.”

Scott foresees the incubator supporting 15 to 25 business owners at one time, although such details won’t be decided until the operator is selected. Those business owners selected for the program would likely pay a “nominal” fee to participate, Scott said.

City looking for spaces where incubator grads can set up shop

The U.S. Small Business Administration estimates that only 44 percent of small businesses continue to operate after four years. But the National Business Incubation Association states that nearly 90 percent of incubated companies are still in business five years after graduating from its affiliated programs.

City officials are already speaking to the Community Redevelopment Agency to identify commercial spaces where its incubator graduates can set up shop in a fixed location.

Consideration was given to two other potential uses for the first-floor area assigned to the incubator. A co-working space, set up to provide below-market-value offices, and a maker space, which allows participants to share high-tech equipment like 3D printers, were investigated by city staffers, but it was the business incubator they recommended the commission adopt.

Commissioners unanimously agreed. The incubator is set to begin operations when city hall opens.

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Source:

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190913/boynton-beach-reaching-out-to-local-business-owners-will-create-space-in-new-city-hall-to-help-them

The Breakers – Summer Renovations

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The Breakers – Summer Renovations

Something was clearly afoot at The Breakers this summer — a new custom-designed carpet in the lobby that adds a touch of vibrant color to the Palm Beach hotel’s classical architecture.

The first thing visitors see is the single-piece creation, which is 161 feet long, 25 feet wide and weighs 1,500 pounds, bursting into bloom with lilies, amaranths, irises and other flowers.

It was designed by Adam Tihany of Tihany Design in New York, who has worked on other iconic properties, including The Beverly Hills Hotel, the Belmond Hotel Cipriani in Venice, and the Four Seasons in Dubai.

“We thought the whole theme of flowers and joy is what guests at The Breakers would expect,” Tihany said in a phone interview. “They’re coming there to have a good time. It’s a relatively classical motif, but it’s done in a modern way.

“When you walk into the hotel, you’re in the midst of a never-ending bloom. Everything is growing and there’s a splash of color and happiness. …“For us the question was, how to do you keep the beautiful architecture of the lobby and make it even better without starting to bring in other designs? I thought the carpet pretty much sums it up.”

It took a year to have the piece, produced by 35 weavers at Sacco Carpet in New York, made. “We kept following up on the progress,” Tihany said. “It was like painting a mural.”

The carpet has 70 different colors. Sara Flight, communications director, calls it “the pièce de résistance” of the lobby’s new look.

Earlier, Tihany redesigned two of The Breakers signature suites, The Imperial and Royal Poinciana. The Imperial now has a luxury yacht theme.

“The positioning of the suite is such that when you walk in, you’re basically surrounded by water,” he said. “So, we thought that the boat theme would be appropriate.”

“You walk in and you say ‘Hey, I’m on a great yacht here!’ That’s the reaction we were hoping to solicit,” he said. “It’s inspired by nautical details and the kinds of colors you’d expect to find.”

More space can be added to the 1,700-square-foot suite by opening up adjoining rooms. “There’s a big trend toward multi-generational travel,” said Flight. “If you’re traveling with kids, the grandparents, with a nanny or with security, this is a nice concept.”

The Breakers is owned by the Kenan family, heirs of founder Henry Flagler. They budget $30 million a year for renovations at the hotel, said Tricia Taylor, executive vice president and general manager.

 

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https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/business/20190830/palm-beach-business-breakers-lobby-has-thousands-of-flowers—at-your-feet

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Crest Theatre – Delray Beach – Old School Square

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Crest Theatre – Old School Square – Delray Beach

A historic South Florida theater that opened in the 1920s will renovate its interior to the tune of about $1 million. The first phase of the renovations will take about nine weeks and among the improvements will be increased space, seating and natural light, new carpet and fixtures, updated restrooms and more.

The Crest Theatre in Delray Beach — located in the heart of Old School Square — is a National Register of Historic Places site built in 1925 as a high school that now hosts art classes, exhibits, comedy and musical theater performances.

“The Cornell Art Museum [which sits next to the theater] just went through a $1 million renovation as well from the same donor and the same builders as well, so it will take that same look, refresh it and still pay homage to the history and the feel of the historic site,” said Holland Ryan, chief operating officer at Old School Square Center for the Arts. “Margaret Blume is our private donor; she’ll be doing the donation of $1 million.”

Ryan said the renovations will be completed in two phases, the first of which is expected to take about nine weeks.

“The first phase will…be completed by Nov. 1 of this year and will include various upgrades including automatic openers to our historic doors. Because we’re a national historic site, the doors are smaller and a little bit harder to get to and from for our art students and all our patrons, so we’ll be adding automatic openers to those,” he said.

The Crest Theatre in Delray Beach is undergoing the first phase of its $1 million renovation.
Other renovations include “updating the lobby, opening it up, putting in a new box office, creative art school, reception desk, doing upgrades to our first-floor restrooms, all the carpeting and some of our bar area to increase and improve traffic for patrons that are visiting us for events to really move bar lines along,” he said.

During the first phase, the Crest Theatre building will be closed, according to Ryan, but the box office and creative art school registration area will be available at the Cornell Museum and online.

“Some of the classes for the creative art school that start next semester are going to be relocated to the facilities on the south end of the building that are not a part of the phase-one renovation,” Ryan said.

The renovation will be done by Fort Lauderdale-based architecture company Walters Zackria Associates.

“We are a not-for-profit organization,” Ryan said. “We obtained the land in 1989 […] and we definitely appreciate and thank our generous donor, Margaret Blume, and the help of our architect and builder.”

 

 

SOURCE:

Sun Sentinel: 

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/delray-sun/fl-cn-delray-beach-historic-crest-theatre-renovations-20190906-wlwpu2a3qje6dljkpivspz2hb4-story.html

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