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The Lincoln Eatery Welcomes Pop Up & Shop Up as its First Retail Boutique

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MIAMI COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS – OCTOBER 1, 2021 BY MIAMI BEACH CHAMBER Miami’s Best Food Hall Steps into the World of Retail with the Launch of its First Boutique, Creating a New Sense Of Community for Local Businesses in Miami Beach.

The Lincoln Eatery, Miami Beach’s first modern food hall and Best Food Hall 2021 by Miami New Times, announces the grand opening of its first retail boutique called Pop Up & Shop Up. The stall will launch onSunday, September 19, the same day as the eatery’s monthly makers market hosted by founder Stephani Lamoni.

The event will take place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and will highlight a broad selection of local businesses, selling a rotating selection of locally made products. Participating brands on opening week include Scrub Runes, Island Gal Beauty Bar, Made in Goods, Shop Rue and more. The event at the Lincoln Eatery is free to attend and RSVPs via Eventbrite are suggested.

The launch of Pop Up & Shop Up as a permanent stall within the food hall continues the Lincoln Eatery’s mission of bringing local artisans together, creating a sense of community in Miami Beach. The boutique will continue to highlight minority-owned businesses and showcase locally-made products, including makeup, skincare, haircare, artisan goods, homemade jewelry, works of art, sustainable fashion and more.

The Pop Up & Shop Up concept was created in 2019 when Lamoni sought to create a venue for local makers to sell their own homemade goods on a consistent basis. After operating at venues across South Florida, the Lincoln Eatery adopted the activation as a monthly event, well attended by South Florida locals seeking a sense of community in the middle of bustling South Beach.

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How the city of Miami Beach is attracting pop-ups

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Commerce+Communities Today – AUGUST 4, 2021 BY BEN JOHNSON Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road shopping and dining district needed a jolt, and not just from the pandemic. The nearby Miami Beach Convention Center reopened in 2018 after three years of redevelopment, and local retailers were feeling the disruption. “We went to the city and urged them to have a streamlined licensing process so we could get short-term tenants open to keep those stores full,” said Stephen Bittel, founder and chairman of Terranova, which has a long history as an owner of retail properties in the Lincoln Road area.

As a result, the city launched a program in September to expedite 90-day special event permits for pop-up retailers. Now, that program is filling empty space and generating buzz. “We were working on the program pre-pandemic, and the pandemic just made everything come together in a very sudden way that made it even more opportune,” Bittel said.

Successful results

In late July, online lifestyle sneaker brand Air Kiy hosted its second pop-up in the district in the past six months, at 1655 Meridian Ave. For the first pop-up there, fans had lined up along the pedestrian promenade, and limited-release sneakers sold out within hours.

Other pop-ups in the district have become fixtures. Sol + Sorbet arrived last fall for a three-month pop-up and recently relocated to an expanded space at 821 Lincoln Road under a more traditional lease. Plant Daddy, a popular plant concept that grew a large online following, also signed a three-month pop-up last October, at 808 Lincoln Lane North. It renewed for six months and soon will expand into the space next door.

“We think these retailers are coming because they want to take advantage of this tremendous volume of pedestrian traffic, coupled with Lincoln Road as an open-air shopping destination so people in a pandemic world feel safer shopping outside,” said Bittel.

Pop-up spaces in the area range from 300 square feet to as much as 4,000 square feet. The latter was taken by Shein, an online retailer with a cult-like following. It has opened only a handful of in-store pop-ups across the country but set up a three-day location at 744 Lincoln Road during the annual Miami Swim Week fashion event. Reservations for the event sold out online in 48 hours.

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Coral Gables’ most beloved Irish pub closed last year, but now it’s making a comeback

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MIAMI HERALD — MARCH 17, 2021 — BY CARLOS FRIAS Martin Lynch was on the fifth hole of the Biltmore golf course when news went out that Coral Gables Irish pub he cofounded, JohnMartin’s, would reopen with new owners.

Irish eyes smiled on St. Patrick’s Day.

Lynch and partner John Clark closed their pub, one of the longest-running restaurants in South Florida, on its 31st anniversary in April of 2020. They had long planned to not renew their lease and ease into retirement, sped up by the coronavirus restaurant closures. That retirement was made perhaps more plush after they sold the name to Breakwater Hospitality Group and Black Market Miami owner Erick Passo, who announced Wednesday in a press release they would remodel and reopen JohnMartin’s in the fall of 2021.

“I’m really happy that the name will live on,” Lynch said. “We were giving up the lease one way or the other. And I think this is fantastic because it keeps the name going.”

The new JohnMartin’s is likely to be very different from the original.

“The place definitely needs some work, there’s no doubt about it,” Lynch said.

The new spot “will be updated with a new look and feel,” created by a design firm, Big Time Design Studio, which will handle the “reimagining of the space,” according to a press release from the new owners. The building is owned by Terranova, which writes that it wants to bring more multi-use spaces to Coral Gables.

“JohnMartin’s had a tremendous impact on South Florida’s bar scene, and you will be hard-pressed to find a restaurant or bar that rivals their iconic status and reputation for hospitality,” Emi Guerra co-owner of Breakwater Hospitality, which built The Wharf, said in a press release. “Our team is proud to breathe new life into JohnMartin’s and to continue the tradition of providing the same welcoming service but with a fresh new look and feel suited for the times.”

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