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Small Business Week – South Florida

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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.

Source:
Small Business Week

CBS12

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Delray City Market Food Hall to Open Fall 2019

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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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Palm Beach Breaks Ground on New Recreation Center

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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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Palm Beach County to Improve Youth Training

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Palm Beach County Youth Training and Skills for Future Work Force

Young people entering the work force are lacking both the technical and soft skills they need to succeed in the workplace, according to a study released Thursday by the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County.

The $130,000 study, funded by J.P. Morgan Chase, reflects the 1.96 million labor force that stretches from St. Lucie to Broward counties. The analysis — from a survey of more than 200 businesses; 1,800 residents; 1,200 post-secondary students and 2,900 high school students — calls for Palm Beach County to improve training and expand learning opportunities for high school students.

“Palm Beach County’s economy is extremely robust. However, local CEOs are citing the lack of key skills and talent attraction as one of the biggest issues impacting their ability to grow their bottom line,” said Kelly Smallridge, president and CEO of the Business Development Board, the county’s economic development partnership.

Kay Stebbins, director of research and analytics for Georgia-based Boyette Strategic Advisors, which conducted the study, said 56 percent of employers surveyed said it is difficult to find talent, especially employees with technical skills.

During a study panel discussion Thursday, which had about 200 business leaders in attendance at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Palm Beach Schools Superintendent Donald Fennoy said he was surprised that the students surveyed acknowledged their lack of soft skills, such as social and communication skills. But he learned during a recent visit to Suncoast Community High School in Riviera Beach, he said, that students “are actually blaming us for why they don’t have soft skills. They say, ‘I’ve never gone outside by myself and played,’ and ‘I don’t get graded on how to interact with other people.’ ”

Kimberly Lea, president of Keiser College’s West Palm Beach campus, said educational institutions need to work with employers to provide learning opportunities.

“It’s making sure [medical program] students have those soft skills by working in a local hospital and knowing what it’s like to be in a stressful situation,” she said.

Recommendations from the survey, which will be addressed by the Business Development Board’s Academic Leaders Council, include:

Soft skills development from elementary to high school.

Agreements between educational institutions to explore concurrent credit opportunities.

New opportunities for businesses to collaborate with education and training providers.

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FIU Wins Grant Targeted for an International Business Center

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FIU Wins Over $1 million Grant Targeted for an International Business Center

Florida International University’s business school in Miami has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to establish a Center for International Business Education and Research.  The grant will have a total impact of more than $2 million in matching funds from FIU. It is one of 15 such grants awarded to universities across the country this year, and the only one awarded in Florida.

The education and research center, which will be housed at the university’s College of Business, will receive $282,000 each year for four years. The grants will be matched by FIU Business, bringing the total funding to nearly $2.3 million.  The international business centers were created by Congress to increase the nation’s capacity for international understanding and competitiveness. FIU Business said it plans to create or support more than 50 programs focusing on themes including developing a bridge between Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region and fostering global intercultural fluency.

About FIU:

Florida International University is Miami-Dade County’s first public, four-year university. FIU was founded in 1965 and opened for classes in 1972 with 5,667 students – the largest opening day enrollment in U.S. collegiate history.

In 2009, the FIU Board of Trustees unanimously approved Mark B. Rosenberg as FIU’s fifth president. Today it has more than 40,00 students, almost 1,000 full-time faculty and nearly 150,000 alumni. FIU is one of the 25 largest universities in the nation, based on enrollment. The University offers more than 200 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in 21 colleges and schools. Ninety-five percent of FIU’s full-time, tenure, and tenure earning faculty hold doctorates or the highest degree attainable in their field. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. Sponsored research funding (grants and contracts) from external sources now exceed $100 million. The University is ranked as a Research University in the High Research Activity category of the Carnegie Foundation’s prestigious classification system. The school’s mascot is the Golden Panther, and its alumni constitute the fastest growing university alumni group in Miami-Dade County. FIU confers approximately half of all degrees now awarded by universities in Miami-Dade County.FIU’s College of Medicine was approved in 2006 by the Florida Board of Governors and the Florida Legislature. In 2008, it received preliminary accreditation by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education of the AAMC and admitted its first class in August 2009.

FIU is the youngest university to have been awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most distinguished academic honor society. FIU recently ranked among the best values in public higher education in the country, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s 2006 survey, “100 Best Values in Public Colleges.” FIU ranked among the top 50 nationally for in-state students and among the top 100 nationally for out-of-state and international students. FIU recently ranked third in granting bachelors degrees to minorities and ninth in granting masters degrees to minorities, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education, June 1, 2006. FIU’s College of Law led all universities in the state with the highest pass rate of 94.4% on the 2007 Statewide Florida Bar Examination. The second highest pass rate belonged to Florida State University with 88.2%.

U.S.News & World Report ranks FIU’s undergraduate international business programs among the top 15 in the nation and their graduate programs among the top 25. The university has also been named one of the “10 Cool Colleges for Entrepreneurs” by Fortune Small Business magazine. The Executive MBA program was recently ranked #1 in Florida by the Financial Times. The School of Hospitality and Tourism Management is one of the nation’s top programs. Other acclaimed programs include Creative Writing and Marine Biology. The University’s 2010-2011 operating budget is $942 million. FIU has more than 4,800 employees. The University has an economic impact of more than $1.7 billion on the South Florida economy.

In recent years, FIU has emerged as one of South Florida’s major cultural assets, offering programs to both students and the local community. Several of its programs are nationally renowned for their excellence.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum celebrated the grand opening of its new facility on the Modesto A. Maidique campus in 2008. The Wolfsonian-FIU museum, located in Miami Beach, promotes the collection, preservation and understanding of decorative art and design from the period 1885-1945. The School of Theatre and Dance produces a wide variety of live student performances, and The School of Music presents an annual fall series of concerts that showcase talent in a variety of genres. The festival features FIU musicians as well as distinguished visiting performers.

Under the direction of the Creative Writing Program, the Writers on the Bay lecture series presents noted authors and poets.

The School of Hospitality and Tourism Management helps present the annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival, one of the major culinary events in the nation.

FIU has two campuses, the 344-acre Modesto A. Maidique campus in western Miami-Dade County, and the 200-acre Biscayne Bay Campus in northeast Miami-Dade County. The University also has an academic site in Broward County, FIU Broward-Pines Center in Pembroke Pines.

A major research facility, the 40-acre Engineering Center is located near the Maidique campus. The Downtown Center, located in downtown Miami, offers graduate level business courses for busy professionals. For more information go to www.fiu.edu.  In July, FIU was ranked the second-best university in the state this year, according to the Florida Board of Governors. The University of Florida retained its spot as the top-ranked university on the list.

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