At The Downtown Pantry-Crestview, customers are invited to enjoy free coffee while browsing organic food and other items in the front of the store and in adjacent rooms named “Home,” “Pantry,” Bakery,” and “Meats.”
The Walmart Neighborhood Market being built at 1150 Industrial Drive in north Crestview could be ready to open in September or October, Kevin Rogers, principal at WRS Inc. Real Estate Investments, said after this morning’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new store.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the eagerly anticipated Walmart Neighborhood Market at 1150 Industrial Drive in north Crestview is set for 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 5.
There is a high demand from residents in the Crestview, Baker and Laurel Hill areas for locally sourced beef, chicken, and eggs, as well as fresh sourdough, business partners Jordan Weldon and Shaun Clifton said on Thursday.
At his planned Emerald Exxxotics pet store in downtown Crestview, Andrew Rencich intends to showcase emerald tree boas and other reptiles, a tarantula and other arthropods, and a wallaby and other mammals, all with an educational component.
An Alga Beer Co. tap house and a Brown Bagger food trailer soon might fill the small vacant lot directly north of Coney Island on Main Street in downtown Crestview.
Veterans Day is held annually each Nov. 11 in honor of all of those who have served in the U.S. military.
In addition to remembering the sacrifices of those who served, the day is also filled with a variety of discounts from various businesses and restaurants for veterans.
Adora Mcelheney, the owner of the “Smokin Country Flava” food truck in Crestview, fell in love again with her high school sweetheart in 2019.
Food was their shared passion, both working in the food industry. She herself was a manager of different restaurants such as Whataburger and Shoney’s, and he is what Mcelheney describes as a “master griller.”
Benjamin Donnell and his wife, Alley, are both entrepreneurs. The pair, who have been married for almost nine years, talked daily about what kind of business they wanted to open.
“We would think about what it would look like to open a café with maybe sandwiches and coffee,” Benjamin Donnell said. “We were always talking about something, and the Lord opened the door for us to do something with ice cream and that is the direction we decided to go into. We knew this is what we needed right now.”
