The industrial warehouse to be built on the Festival Flea Market site is IDI Logistics’ fourth project in Pompano Beach. The others are Rock Lake Business Center, Pompano II Business Center, and Pompano M Business Center – all located south of the Festival Flea Market, off Blount Road.
Mele said IDI Logistics doesn’t yet know who the tenant, or tenants, of the new warehouse will be, but they will be working to get tenants similar to the ones in their three other locations, which are “typical warehouse distribution-type tenants.” He said the developer will work with the community to try to get local businesses that will hire local people.
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A number of Festival Flea Market vendors, some who have been there for over 20 years, have voiced concern about losing their businesses, and about the approximately 1000 employees who will lose their jobs.
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City Manager Greg Harrison told the Commission that the City is “very sensitive about the situation” and had begun looking into ways to try to assist the vendors.
The City has reached out to Sterling Organization, the owners of Pompano Citi Centre shopping mall, regarding possible relocation options for the vendors that will be displaced.
Harrison said City staff was checking to see whether some of the federal funds received as a result of COVID-19 and the economic downturn could be used to help the vendors with costs for relocation, improvements to a new location, or first and last months’ rent deposits.
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One Festival Flea Market vendor who attended the commission meeting said the Festival Flea Market is a destination, even though there are individual businesses.
“You can’t take individual businesses and try to make them work by opening up another store somewhere else,” said the vendor. “We need some kind of answers with regards to keeping us as a destination. That’s basically the important part.”
Pompano Beach Mayor Rex Hardin said that he had received e-mails and understands the concerns of the business owners, and thanked the city manager and staff for looking into options for them, “but it comes down to a private property owner, and people can make changes to their properties.”
“I wish everyone success in their endeavors,” said Hardin. “And yes, things do change.”
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