Restaurants in shipping containers on the way.
Lauderdale’s Flagler Village to get Wynwood Yard-style venue
Restaurants inside shipping containers are heading to the mural-covered warehouses in the arty MASS District at Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village.
Spurring the development is the JEY Hospitality Group (Pizzacraft, Tacocraft and ROK:BRGR in Himmarshee Village), which recently signed a 10-year lease for the space at 810 NE Fourth Ave.
The 3,247-square-foot property, which borders a vegan-friendly restaurant named Tula’s Garden and Bistro, frames a courtyard that will be transformed into an “entertainment-dining concept,” according to a press release. That will include four restaurants in shipping containers and an outdoor event space featuring live music, with the concept expected to open in early 2019.
“It will be a social space for adults and millennials,” Marc Falsetto, JEY Hospitality’s CEO, says in a phone interview. “I think of it as a music venue with a food hallstyle concept.”
For now, Falsetto is calling the space Flagler Yard, a name that recalls Wynwood Yard, an outdoor Miami hangout that is also home to restaurants inside refur-
bished shipping containers. Falsetto doesn’t expect the name to stick.
But will it be similar to the Wynwood Yard? No,
Falsetto says, adding that the word “yard” is a reference to the venue’s “backyard and outdoor spaces.”
The space will be JEY Hospitality’s latest expansion into Flagler Village, a rapidly growing neighborhood that’s home to a pair of art districts. Henry’s Sandwich Station, also from Falsetto’s outfit, became FAT Village’s first restaurant when it opened Feb. 14.
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