Successful Strategic Alliances

by David Dixon, UMC Area Director

Are there business benefits to being a good community citizen? YES. By supporting other local businesses, alliances are formed that create flexibility and camaraderie for planning events, utilizing services, and purchasing products.

STORE’s weekly greenmarket has proven this. Florida summers leave residents lacking any sort of outdoor market for several months. By choosing to address the need of its community, STORE has helped support local vendors during our lean summer months, made new friends and alliances, and raised the profile of our unique facility.

For the last three years, once a month STORE hosts a morning business networking event, Networking in the Gardens. Countless partnerships, business opportunities, and friendships have resulted from an hour and half one morning a month. Numerous restaurants in PGA Commons, like Prosecco Café and Spoto’s Oyster Bar, now cater (and often donate) to our events, realtors and apartment managers can assist their clients in finding safer storage options, and STORE even found its new website designer, Blue Wave Design, from it! For local businesses, word of mouth is really what it’s all about.

If you are a local supplier or business owner, we want to hear from you. STORE Self Storage is locally owned, locally operated, and right in your neighborhood. Stop by for a personal tour of our award-winning facility or contact our staff about joining our local group. We’d love to have you.