Chamber Connection - January : February

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Chamber Hosts First-Ever New Year’s Bites & Boom Networker on January 9th!

et your business cookin’ in 2014 at our Taste of the New Year networker and celebration! On Thursday, January 9th at 5:30pm, our Chamber will host its first-ever New Year’s Bites & Boom Networker at the historic Biltmore Hotel. Members and guests will gather on the veranda overlooking their iconic swimming pool that once played host to stars like Esther Williams and Johnny Weissmuller. Attendees will dive head-first into an evening filled with delicious delicacies provided by more than twenty of the Gables’ finest restaurants, including many of our newest locales. These bites will be complimented by bottomless libations courtesy of Bacardi USA. Other notable activities include DJ Mayner mixing the turntables, an interactive photo booth, resolution tree, raffles and much...much more! This “Taste of Twenty-Fourteen” will kick-off a celebrated year of engaging events and incredible networking opportunities hosted by the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce.

Cost: $25 Members, $35 Guests and a VIP Package of 5 for $100. Sponsored by Cherry Bekaert, LLP; Bacardi USA; City National Bank; Credomatic Merchant Services. Participating Restaurants (to date): Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza Bellmont Spanish Restaurant Bread + Butter Counter Cao Chocolates Catering by Lovables Cibo Wine Bar Coral Gables High School Culinary Program Doctors Hospital The Dome Restaurant Bar & Lounge L.A. Sweets La Taberna Giralda Pardo’s Peruvian Cuisine Peterbrooke Chocolatier Pincho Factory Seasons 52 Swine Southern Table & Bar Tarpon Bend Raw Bar & Grill

Realtor Showcase Expo Returns January 24th!

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or the past six years, the Business & Education Committee of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce has partnered with the Miami Association of Realtors to host a high-impact seminar focused on what it takes to “Sell the City Beautiful”. Known for our charm and class,

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Coral Gables is also home to outstanding schools (both public and private), world-renowned restaurants, sophisticated shopping, limitless amenities and everything one could ever dream of in Merrick’s vision of a planned community.

a coveted community in which to live, work, learn and play will be on full display.

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On Friday, January 24, 2014, the Chamber will host this event from 10:30am - 1:00pm at the Miami Association of Realtor’s Coral Gables office at 245 Alcazar Avenue. This seminar will consist of a series of presentations, including our local public and private schools, representatives from the arts, culture, restaurant and retail community that call the Gables home, as well as City officials, including department heads of Building and Zoning, Code Enforcement and more.

Sponsored by: FirstBank Florida Cost: $25 Chamber & MAR Members; $35 Guests

Everything you ever wanted to know about what makes Coral Gables such www.coralgableschamber.org | CHAMBER CONNECTION | January - February 2014


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