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Colattao Community Market
Monthly community bazaar · Virginia Beach
A small monthly arts-and-crafts bazaar anchored by Colattao Coffee House. Local makers, crafts, flowers, and gifts set up in the marked parking patch beside the café. It runs on a fixed monthly rhythm with a hired lead — built to grow toward a coffee fest and expo.
No public date is announced until four approvals are in: landlord, city / zoning, fire, and health.
Approval pipeline
- 1Landlord approvalNext
Send the approval packet + permission letter to the property manager.
- 2Site walk & mapTo do
Count parking; mark drive aisles, fire lanes, and the vendor zone.
- 3Neighbor tenant sign-offTo do
Support or no-objection from the surrounding stores.
- 4City · zoning · fire · healthTo do
Confirm permits and the food path by phone.
- 5InsuranceTo do
Event-liability quote — the landlord will require it.
- 6Final landlord sign-offTo do
Approve the map, date, vendor count, and rules.
- 7Announce & launchTo do
Go public, recruit vendors, sell a sponsor, run month one.
What makes it win
- +Approvals secured in order before any public date
- +Parking, fire lanes, ADA, and tenant doors kept clear
- +Neighbor tenants on board
- +City sees it as a small private-property pilot
- +Cooked food kept off the tables
- +At least one sponsor per market
- +Vendors pre-pay online — no cash
- +A hired Market Manager runs it, not the owner
What kills it
- ×Announcing a date before approvals
- ×Blocking aisles, fire lanes, or tenant entrances
- ×Cooked food with no health approval
- ×Competing with neighbor tenants without their OK
- ×No event insurance
- ×Cash handling and unclear parking
- ×The market depending on the owner
- ×No sponsor — staff costs eat the profit
Money
The market is self-sustaining: vendor booth fees plus one sponsor cover the day's staff and supplies. Vendors pre-pay online, so there is no cash to handle.
Market ledger · income & expenses
Every market's income and expenses are logged here. Figures below are projected for the first market; actual numbers replace them after each event.
Who runs it
Applications, approvals, reminders, QR directory, check-in, reporting
Runs the monthly loop end to end
Directs parking; walks customers into the bazaar
Approvals + sponsor relationships only