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Article written by Lisa Capitelli of The Ocean City Today
Hooper’s Crab House, located at the foot of the Route 50 bridge in West Ocean City, has sponsored Brews on the Beach, a craft beer festival in the fall, for the last three years.
When Vince Wright, a brewer, approached Hooper’s management team about two years ago during the festival with the suggestion of brewing their own beer, the idea piqued their curiosity.
“He asked if we would ever consider making our own beer for the restaurant. We told him we never really thought about it, but we were intrigued,” said Hooper’s General Manager Ryan Intrieri.
Intrieri said he and Manager Patrick Brady started crunching some figures. They then began assembling and constructing a brewery in Mike Glavich’s West Ocean City garage. Glavich is manager of Sneaky Pete’s, the dock bar outside Hooper’s.
“We designed it from the ground up and received loads of help from Doug Griffith, owner of [Delmarva Brewing Craft, based in Millsboro, Del., and www.Xtremebrewing.com], and Bryan Brushmiller and his entire crew at Burley Oak [Brewery, in Berlin],” Intrieri said.
The five 150-gallon kettles had been set up in Hooper’s for the past year, but they were just not able to start making beer until recently.
“After approximately a year and half of extensive paper work and developing the brewery, we are official and brewing Fin Light, Sneaky Wheat and Pale Ale,” Intrieri said. “We have been very pleased with the results… It’s been a great experience and we’re learning every day.”
Fin City Brewery, which operates on the second floor of Hooper’s, began brewing beer onsite in April. Wright, who suggested the idea of Hooper’s brewing its own beer, is the brewmaster. The five-barrel system can been seen from the dining area.
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Article written by Zack Hoopes of The Ocean City Today
“If I can’t sell this view, I can’t sell anything.”
Ever the salesman, Larry Noccolino gestured out towards the panoramic vista of Isle of Wight Bay – as seen from the construction site of the Roland E. Powell Convention Center’s new grand ballroom, itself still a less scenic frame of steel girders and cinder blocks.
“The bay side has always taken a back seat to the ocean,” Noccolino said. “When I first started coming here, there was Fager’s Island on the bay, maybe a few others, but not much. I like the bay side, though. I’m a bay man.”
Up until last week, however, Noccolino was a Schuylkill River man, having just left his post as executive director of the Valley Forge Convention Center in order to take the helm at the Ocean City convention center. Before that, he worked as a general manager at several country clubs in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Florida. But he is no stranger to Ocean City, having vacationed at the resort for as long as he can remember and having owned a home in North Ocean City since long before he ever considered taking the lead at the Roland E. Powell center.
“It’s just a different way of life down here,” Noccolino said. “I plan to be here for the rest of my career.”
But the difference won’t just be in the lifestyle for Noccolino, it will be in the business as well, since while the Valley Forge Convention Center was privately owned and completely profit-oriented, Ocean City’s facility is publicly funded and routinely operates at a loss. Its goal, as oft refrained by public officials, is to jumpstart local business by putting “heads in beds,” a somewhat less quantifiable ambition.
“This is a whole new kettle of fish for me, the idea that we could lose money but still add so much value,” Noccolino said.
Last year, and under this fiscal year’s proposed budget, the convention center will spend roughly $7 million in order to make $5.5 million, leaving the town’s year-end contribution at approximately $1.5 million. However, in imitation of private business, the convention center is run as an enterprise fund, meaning it has the leeway to exclusively use its own revenues for its own expenditures.
Valley Forge, however, is much larger. Despite over half of its space being taken up by a lucrative casino, the center boasts two hotels for nearly 500 rooms, as well as three separate restaurants. Its employee base is also more than 10 times that of Roland E. Powell’s, with Noccolino estimating 400 employees – not including the casino workers. Ocean City’s facility has a staff of 32.
But the difference in operations was never a deterrent. “I’ve never been with a business that’s operated at a loss,” Noccolino said. “But the number one goal, in either case, is still to put heads in beds or fannies in restaurant seats, or whatever you want to call it.”
What was an attraction for Noccolino, conversely, has been the completely different ambition of Ocean City’s center. Valley Forge, he explained, was designed to be an all-in-one, self-contained destination for convention-goers to pack in as much convening as possible. It’s location, in the suburbs just outside Philadelphia and conveniently adjacent to the King of Prussia Mall, the United States’ secondlargest shopping center, was purely business.
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Article written by Steven Green of The Dispatch
Eight months after the City Council voted to dismiss long-time City Manager Dennis Dare, David Recor was officially hired this week as Ocean City’s fourth city manager.
Before coming to Ft. Pierce in 2005 as its deputy city manager and becoming city manager in 2008, Recor, a credentialed manager with the International City/County Manager Association, was the deputy director of Planning & Community Development from 2003 to 2005 for Fairfax, Va.; planning and land use director for Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska for one month in 2003; deputy planning director for Hilton Head Island from 1998 to 2003; director of administrative services for the Desoto County Board of Supervisors in Arcadia, Fla. from 1996 to 1998; growth management administrator for Cape Coral, Fla. from 1993 to 1996; zoning administrator for Culpeper, Va. from 1989 to 1993; and assistant town manager for Chincoteague, Va. for less than a year in 1989.
In a candid phone interview on Wednesday with Editor Steve Green, Recor discussed his last month as city manager in Ft. Pierce, Fla.; his confidence he can bring unity to the city and exactly how he will do it; the phone call that revealed his identity; his prowess with financial figures; and what some perceive as a defensive personality.
Q. How are you feeling today about becoming Ocean City’s fourth city manager?
A. It is an honor and privilege to be named the resort’s fourth city manager and follow the distinguished career of long-time City Manager Dennis Dare. I know that Dennis was very well respected in the community, and I have given my assurances to the Mayor and Council and would like to assure the town’s employees and community residents that we are going to work together and seek only to build upon the years of outstanding years of service and leadership that was epitomized by the previous administration.
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