By Lambe Lamis 
A brand new unique and luxurious automobile rental enterprise in Crown Level will let prospects lease Lamborghini, Porsches, Ferraris and monster vans.
Drip Drop Exotics, which has places 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 will probably be positioned within the industrial park on Arrowhead Courtroom. Our enterprise will serve the area’s rental wants for every kind of events. We specialise in high-end automobiles reminiscent of Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Bentley, McLaren, Porsche, Maybach and far more. We’ll 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 automobiles are invited to come back out. There will probably be meals vans and dessert vans. About 1,500 automobile lovers got here out with 700 automobiles for the Bolingbrook opening.
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The festivities will embrace a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the brand new enterprise. It provides individuals the prospect to drive a supercar, attempt one out for a number of days earlier than shopping for or to drive an identical supercar whereas theirs is within the store.
“We get lots of people who wish to take them to promenade, weddings, company occasions or an evening out,” he mentioned. “It is a reasonably large market.”
The present places 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 numerous corporations 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 appears prefer to drive these automobiles for a day or two, see the way it feels.”
Drip Drop Exotics is trying to increase into gross sales in Crown Level and Bolingbrook. It is within the strategy of making use of to function used high-end supercar dealerships in each Indiana and Illinois.
“That may also make it simpler for leases by including to our buying energy,” he mentioned. “It is a sophisticated utility 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 is going to additionally provide a chauffeur service by the hour, whisking individuals round in high-end luxurious automobiles to wherever in Northwest Indiana or better Chicagoland. It is a minimal of three hours.
The Crown Level location can have 20 supercars obtainable available and entry to greater than 60, which may be introduced in from the opposite places. It is going to provide weekly rental charges the place individuals can drive them on weekdays for a decrease charge.
“What’s hottest depends upon 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 lease ATVs, snowmobiles and 6-by-6 monster vans.
“We take a Gladiator truck, lower the car in half and add an axle so it has six axles,” he mentioned. “It is larger and stretched out. It positively beats a 4-by-4 for offroading and clearances.”
Drip Drop Exotics will probably 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 complete worth of the car — in contrast to “Seinfeld,” they will not be capable to decline the insurance coverage choice.
“If you wish to expertise one thing distinctive, it is one thing totally different,” he mentioned. “We give individuals a distinct type of enjoyable and a chance to drive supercars with out breaking the financial institution.”
For extra data, 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 Sweets, Pandora Jewellery and Junkluggers of Larger NW Indiana opening
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Rooster Paradise and Cinco De Mayo will quickly open within the meals court docket of the Southlake Mall at U.S. 30 and Mississippi Road 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 places in our different facilities as nicely. The identical operator will probably be opening two spots.”
Cinco De Mayo focuses on Mexican meals whereas Rooster Paradise has hen sandwiches, fried hen and wings.
They need to open within the subsequent two months, she mentioned.
“We now have numerous new tenants, numerous motion coming to the middle,” Filetti mentioned. “We’re enthusiastic about our leasing exercise.”
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Coming quickly
Morkes Sweets, 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 places in Palatine and Huntley, specializing in subtle, wonderful goodies.
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-fashioned with wicker baskets with totally different laborious candies, totally different goodies, caramel apples and all the things. We have served goodies to generations.”
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Historic roots
The Cedar Lake candy store will probably 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 referred to as the daddy of Cedar Lake. We realized that after we purchased the constructing. There was a plaque to Robert King and we knew his son. We have been floored after we discovered.”
The house 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 needed to open the chocolate store she at all times dreamed of.
“It was like a marriage gown,” she mentioned. “You simply know it is the one.”
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Many alternative sweets
Morkes Sweets provides many candies goodies, 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 is going to have a line of sugar-free goodies 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 can 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 is going to seat 12 to fifteen individuals and have a celebration room with one other 20 seats and closed-circuit tv cameras that can let mother and father and grandparents watch the youngsters from one other room if they like.
Morkes will furnish sweet, ice cream and pizza for the events. The children can play and make their very own goodies.
“We’ll have numerous youngsters’ birthday events,” she mentioned. “They will get to do chocolate-making, dipping issues in chocolate and taking residence no matter they make. I wish to make it straightforward 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 won’t carry the doughnuts however will in any other case be very comparable.
“I wish to create a spot the place individuals are going to be motivated to attempt each single totally different piece of chocolate,” she mentioned. “I wish to create a spot the place individuals are going to be very comfy to return to, a spot the place the proprietor is sweet and impartial.”
Morkes Sweets will probably be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday by way of Friday, from 9 a.m. to five p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to three p.m. Sunday.
For extra data, go to morkeschocolates.com, discover the enterprise on Fb or name 219-390-7161.
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Open
Surf’s Up lately opened within the Southlake Mall in Hobart.
The restaurant focuses on 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 numerous motion happening in our meals court docket.”
The menu consists of crab legs, lobster, perch, catfish, tilapia and whiting. A lot of the seafood can both be ordered fried or grilled.
Sandwich choices embrace 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 embrace potatoes, corn on the cob, collard greens, cheese grits, shrimp and grits and fried inexperienced tomatoes.
The restaurant is positioned on the second ground of the mall at 2109 Southlake Mall.
For extra data, name 708-516-4924.
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Coming quickly
Pandora Jewellery will quickly open a location within the middle court docket on the Southlake Mall in Hobart.
The Danish jeweler sells customizable appeal 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’ll be able to add onto with charms.”
The corporate was based by Danish goldsmith Per Enevoldsen in 1982 and debuted its signature appeal 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 web site in Thailand.
Although worldwide in scope, Pandora’s enterprise is concentrated primarily in Europe and america.
Pandora Jewellery plans to open in an 882-square-foot house on the primary ground on the superregional Southlake Mall close to the opposite jewellery shops that flank the middle court docket within the new few months.
“It needs to be open by the top of summer season, in August or September,” she mentioned.
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Open
The Duneland Chamber of Commerce lately hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Junkluggers of Larger NW Indiana, which opened final yr at 157 W. 1050 N. in Chesterton.
The enterprise focuses on eco-friendly junk elimination. It is a nationwide franchise {that a} College of Connecticut pupil based whereas consuming boxed wine and listening to a good friend play guitar whereas learning overseas in Australia. A good friend talked about he made $100 for lugging away a neighbor’s fridge and CEO Josh Cohen realized he might do this.
It provides residential and industrial junk elimination, curbside pickup, e-waste recycling, senior downsizing, property cleanouts, equipment elimination, development web site cleanouts and furnishings elimination. It is going to clear out attics, basements, garages and storage items.
For extra data, name 219-248-2094 or go to junkluggersofnwin.com.
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