Riverview/Apollo Beach
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April 2021
Volume 19, Issue 4
Ph: 657-2418
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CELEBRATING 19 YEARS OF PUBLISHING P OSITIVE COMMUNIT Y NEWS
NEW LOCALLY OWNED FIELDS & TABLE WINTHROP OFFERS LIVE-WORK UNITS: NEW URBANISM AT ITS FINEST GROCERY STORE COMES TO RIVERVIEW
By Brian Boker
By Michelle Caceres
The locally owned Fields & Table grocery market will be opening in Riverview in early April.
background is in agricultural distribution. “Every family should have the opportunity to have healthy and delicious food options.” In addition to the produce section, the store will feature a meat and seafood department (complete with an experienced butcher), bakery and floral department. Other locally sourced edibles will also be on display, including nuts and honey. The store will also feature a staffed salsa and guacamole bar for customers to customize these delicious sides and take home with them. Mirna said store employees will be knowledgeable and able to assist customers throughout their shopping experience. “Our market will be a place customers come to learn about the food they’re going to be putting into their bodies,” said Mirna. “We can tell them where it’s coming from.” Fields & Table will be open Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. It will also feature an e-commerce element where customers can place their orders online and pick up at the store. To learn more about Fields & Table, go to www.fieldsandtable.com or visit its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/FieldsandTable.
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Riverview is about to get a one-stop grocery option unlike any other. Fields & Table, a new concept grocery market located at 11531 Balm Riverview Rd., is opening this spring. Owned by local residents Brentt and Mirna Skinner, the 8,000-square-foot indoor market and 2,000-square-foot outdoor retail space has scrapped the traditional grocery store layout with its vast center aisles and shelves of neatly stacked processed foods (you won’t find 12-packs of your favorite colas here) in favor of providing quality, fresh, locally sourced and affordable produce, meats, dairy and baked goods. The largest footprint in their store will be its produce department, full of fresh fruits and vegetables. Florida’s subtropical temperatures, accompanied by the warm and rainy seasons, make it an ideal place to grow a number of fruits and vegetables, including sweet corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelons, several kinds of beans, sweet potatoes, peppers, okra, lettuce, carrots, citrus, guavas, mangoes, papayas and more. “We bring food right from the fields to our store to your table,” said Mirna, whose
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Having to work from home has been a substantial change to many of us over the past 12 months, but for owner/ residents of Winthrop’s livework units, that is the one thing that has remained the same. If you were not aware, just about every building in the Winthrop Town Centre community with a second or third story contains an apartment unit above the business on the ground floor, hence the term ‘live-work,’ with several business owners of Winthrop enjoying the short work commute down the stairs. “These units are true hybrids where the ground level is designed to support a retail store or professional office with the upper floor used as a residence or as an investment property for the owner,” said John Sullivan, co-founder, president, developer and live-work unit resident of Winthrop. He and his wife, Kay, started Winthrop 20 years ago with the vision of creating a neighborhood sharing retail, residential, educational, professional and cultural entities in hope of bringing together a community where people can put their roots down. The 51 live-work units, 31 of which are either occupied or permitted but not yet constructed, are a prime example of the ‘new urbanist’ concept that the Sullivans wanted all along, a place where one could find virtually every necessity without needing to get into their car. Live-work units were the norm for the early part of 20th century America until our passion with the automobile moved many from cities to the suburbs. For example, George W. Jenkins, owner and founder of Publix Super Markets, started his chain of over 1,250 locations out of a single livework unit in Winter Haven over 90 years ago, living in the apartment above his first store. This shift in population to more rural areas created the advent of the regional malls and strip centers we see today, but also unfortunately contributed to what has been labeled an ‘urban sprawl’ by separating the places where people live from where they work and shop. In the early 80s, a ‘new urbanism’ movement took hold to revisit
the walkable, functional and sustainable communities of the past. Two of the newest live-work unit owners will be Michelle Mosher of Southshore Insurance Professionals and James J. Pulkowski CPA, PA. Their plans are to work independently out of the same downstairs office while renting out the upstairs as an income-producing property. Cindy Manchesi, vice president of sales and leasing (and another Winthrop livework resident), assists potential businesses and services with the design of the office space and apartment layout. Please contact John or Cindy at 6813480 or visit winthropusa.com for additional information on the live-work units.
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