By Lambe Lamis 
A brand new unique and luxurious automobile rental enterprise in Crown Level will let prospects hire Lamborghini, Porsches, Ferraris and monster vans.
Drip Drop Exotics, which has areas in Bolingbrook and downtown Chicago, plans to open at 1128 Arrowhead Courtroom in Crown Level.
“We’re planning on opening an unique and luxurious automobile rental retailer in Crown Level,” proprietor Moe Ilhmud mentioned. “We can be positioned within the industrial park on Arrowhead Courtroom. Our enterprise will serve the area’s rental wants for all types of events. We focus on high-end vehicles reminiscent of Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Bentley, McLaren, Porsche, Maybach and far more. We are going to provide every day leases in addition to weekly, month-to-month and annual memberships.”
A grand opening with a automobile present is deliberate for 11 a.m. to eight p.m. on Aug. 28. Folks with all varieties of vehicles are invited to come back out. There can be meals vans and dessert vans. About 1,500 automobile lovers got here out with 700 vehicles for the Bolingbrook opening.
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The festivities will embody a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the brand new enterprise. It offers individuals the possibility to drive a supercar, attempt one out for just a few days earlier than shopping for or to drive the same supercar whereas theirs is within the store.
“We get lots of people who need to take them to promenade, weddings, company occasions or an evening out,” he mentioned. “It is a reasonably large market.”
The present areas draw prospects from as distant as Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Fort Wayne.
“We’re increasing to a 3rd location nearer to the place our prospects are, whether or not that is Fort Wayne, Dyer or Valparaiso,” he mentioned. “Not lots of firms provide this service.”
The enterprise makes driving a modern, ultra-luxury sports activities automobile like a Lamborghini extra accessible for individuals.
“Desires come true for lots of people,” he mentioned. “They get to see what it seems to be wish to drive these vehicles for a day or two, see the way it feels.”
Drip Drop Exotics is trying to broaden into gross sales in Crown Level and Bolingbrook. It is within the technique of making use of to function used high-end supercar dealerships in each Indiana and Illinois.
“That will even make it simpler for leases by including to our buying energy,” he mentioned. “It is a sophisticated software course of. You want an even bigger constructing and larger workers to have a dealership.”
Drip Drop Exotics will make use of about six to eight individuals initially. It took over a former mechanic’s store, which has been extensively renovated.
It’ll additionally provide a chauffeur service by the hour, whisking individuals round in high-end luxurious vehicles to wherever in Northwest Indiana or larger Chicagoland. It is a minimal of three hours.
The Crown Level location may have 20 supercars accessible readily available and entry to greater than 60, which will be introduced in from the opposite areas. It’ll provide weekly rental charges the place individuals can drive them on weekdays for a decrease charge.
“What’s hottest is determined by the season,” he mentioned. “In summer season, individuals just like the Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentleys and Porches. In winter, individuals flip extra to Rolls-Royce SUVs.”
The Crown Level location will let individuals hire ATVs, snowmobiles and 6-by-6 monster vans.
“We take a Gladiator truck, minimize the automobile in half and add an axle so it has six axles,” he mentioned. “It is greater and stretched out. It undoubtedly beats a 4-by-4 for offroading and clearances.”
Drip Drop Exotics can be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day. Folks will be capable to make inquiries about reservations on-line or over the cellphone. They must present insurance coverage to cowl the total worth of the automobile — not like “Seinfeld,” they will not be capable to decline the insurance coverage possibility.
“If you wish to expertise one thing distinctive, it is one thing totally different,” he mentioned. “We give individuals a unique sort of enjoyable and a chance to drive supercars with out breaking the financial institution.”
For extra info, go to dripdropexotics.com, name 630-754-7280 or discover the enterprise on Fb, Instagram or TikTok.
NWI Enterprise Ins and Outs: Southlake Mall eating places, Morkes Candies, Pandora Jewellery and Junkluggers of Higher NW Indiana opening
Coming quickly
Hen Paradise and Cinco De Mayo will quickly open within the meals courtroom of the Southlake Mall at U.S. 30 and Mississippi Avenue in Hobart.
The quick meals eating places are chains that function in different mall meals courts.
“It is a native operator,” mentioned Kristyn Filetti, Southlake Mall Advertising & Enterprise Growth Supervisor. “They produce other areas in our different facilities as effectively. The identical operator can be opening two spots.”
Cinco De Mayo makes a speciality of Mexican meals whereas Hen Paradise has rooster sandwiches, fried rooster and wings.
They need to open within the subsequent two months, she mentioned.
“We’ve lots of new tenants, lots of motion coming to the middle,” Filetti mentioned. “We’re enthusiastic about our leasing exercise.”
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Coming quickly
Morkes Candies, a chocolate store with greater than a century of historical past in Chicagoland, will quickly open in Cedar Lake.
Based in Chicago in 1920, the classic candy store has bought sweet since 1920. It has areas in Palatine and Huntley, specializing in refined, positive sweets.
Kris VanderPloeg, who had labored on the Paltantine location, plans to open a Morkes in Cedar Lake in August on West 133rd Avenue in entrance of Strack & Van Til. It has been a longtime dream.
“It is historic,” she mentioned. “William Morkes, who labored at Nabisco, opened the primary one in 1920 at twenty sixth and Trumball in Chicago. It was a chocolate store with sodas, ice cream and doughnuts. That was the unique. His son Invoice Morkes opened in Palantine in 1967. It was the identical factor, very old skool with wicker baskets with totally different onerous candies, totally different sweets, caramel apples and the whole lot. We have served sweets to generations.”
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Historic roots
The Cedar Lake candy store can be positioned in a historic 2,400-square-foot constructing that belonged to Dr. Robert King.
“He was the primary medical practitioner in Cedar Lake. It was a medical physician’s workplace the place he is making home calls and issues like that,” she mentioned. “He is been known as the daddy of Cedar Lake. We realized that once we purchased the constructing. There was a plaque to Robert King and we knew his son. We had been floored once we discovered.”
The area is embellished with black-and-white pictures procured from the Museum at Lassen’s Resort to play up the historic vibe.
She drove by the constructing and knew it was the place she wished to open the chocolate store she all the time dreamed of.
“It was like a marriage costume,” she mentioned. “You simply know it is the one.”
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Many alternative sweets
Morkes Candies gives many candies sweets, caramels, caramel apples, toffees, fudge, Mint Lotions, Authentic Silks, truffles, peanut butter cups, chocolate bars, double stuffed cookies, chocolate graham crackers, Peppermint Barque, Morchunkies, Coconut Haystacks and Sponge Sweet. It’ll have a line of sugar-free sweets for diabetics. Velvety French Cream is the signature merchandise.
It additionally has Pecan Puppets, that are like turtles with caramel, pecans and chocolate however thicker. The shop may have eight totally different sweet dispensers with jelly beans, malted milk balls, Swedish fish and different sweets.
The Cedar Lake sweet store will carry Dairy Belle ice cream. It’ll seat 12 to fifteen individuals and have a celebration room with one other 20 seats and closed-circuit tv cameras that may let mother and father and grandparents watch the children from one other room if they like.
Morkes will furnish sweet, ice cream and pizza for the events. The youngsters can play and make their very own sweets.
“We’ll have lots of children’ birthday events,” she mentioned. “They’re going to get to do chocolate-making, dipping issues in chocolate and taking dwelling no matter they make. I need to make it simple for mothers who’ve to take action a lot. I am a mother myself. It is a one-stop store for mothers for birthdays and different events.”
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A spot the place individuals are going to be motivated to attempt each single totally different piece of chocolate
She expects it is going to be a vacation spot since individuals would drive so far as an hour away to go to the Palatine location. The Cedar Lake Morkes is not going to carry the doughnuts however will in any other case be very comparable.
“I need to create a spot the place individuals are going to be motivated to attempt each single totally different piece of chocolate,” she mentioned. “I need to create a spot the place individuals are going to be very comfy to return to, a spot the place the proprietor is good and impartial.”
Morkes Candies can be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday by Friday, from 9 a.m. to five p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to three p.m. Sunday.
For extra info, go to morkeschocolates.com, discover the enterprise on Fb or name 219-390-7161.
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Open
Surf’s Up not too long ago opened within the Southlake Mall in Hobart.
The restaurant makes a speciality of seafood, fish, shrimp and fried lobster. It additionally has salads, wings, tacos, desserts and fountain drinks.
“It simply opened,” mentioned Kristyn Filetti, Southlake Mall Advertising & Enterprise Growth Supervisor. “There’s lots of motion happening in our meals courtroom.”
The menu contains crab legs, lobster, perch, catfish, tilapia and whiting. Many of the seafood can both be ordered fried or grilled.
Sandwich choices embody salmon burgers, shrimp po’boys and The Bomb Sandwich, which stuffs a lobster tail and shrimp in a toasted garlic brioche bun, topping them with lettuce, pickle, tomatoes and house-made surf sauce. Sides embody potatoes, corn on the cob, collard greens, cheese grits, shrimp and grits and fried inexperienced tomatoes.
The restaurant is positioned on the second flooring of the mall at 2109 Southlake Mall.
For extra info, name 708-516-4924.
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Coming quickly
Pandora Jewellery will quickly open a location within the heart courtroom on the Southlake Mall in Hobart.
The Danish jeweler sells customizable attraction bracelets, designer rings, earrings and necklaces. It sells jewellery at greater than 6,700 retailers in additional than 100 counties on six continents.
“Bridal & Co. had Pandora and Albert’s Diamond Jewelers did too when it was right here,” mentioned Kristyn Filetti, Southlake Mall Advertising & Enterprise Growth Supervisor. “However that is really their first location right here and their first location in our portfolio. They specialised within the customized bracelets you possibly can add onto with charms.”
The corporate was based by Danish goldsmith Per Enevoldsen in 1982 and debuted its signature attraction bracelets in 2000. It turned the world’s third-largest jewellery firm in gross sales quantity in 2011, trailing solely Cartier and Tiffany & Co. The corporate employs greater than 26,000 individuals worldwide, together with at its manufacturing website in Thailand.
Although worldwide in scope, Pandora’s enterprise is concentrated primarily in Europe and the USA.
Pandora Jewellery plans to open in an 882-square-foot area on the primary flooring on the superregional Southlake Mall close to the opposite jewellery shops that flank the middle courtroom within the new few months.
“It ought to be open by the tip of summer season, in August or September,” she mentioned.
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Open
The Duneland Chamber of Commerce not too long ago hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Junkluggers of Higher NW Indiana, which opened final 12 months at 157 W. 1050 N. in Chesterton.
The enterprise makes a speciality of eco-friendly junk elimination. It is a nationwide franchise {that a} College of Connecticut pupil based whereas consuming boxed wine and listening to a buddy play guitar whereas finding out overseas in Australia. A buddy talked about he made $100 for lugging away a neighbor’s fridge and CEO Josh Cohen realized he may try this.
It gives residential and industrial junk elimination, curbside pickup, e-waste recycling, senior downsizing, property cleanouts, equipment elimination, development website cleanouts and furnishings elimination. It’ll clear out attics, basements, garages and storage items.
For extra info, name 219-248-2094 or go to junkluggersofnwin.com.
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