In its fifth installment, Advent Real Estate North PB Sip ‘N Stroll benefiting Discover Pacific Beach’s Clean and Safe Program will take place 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 30.
The North PB Sip ‘N Stroll is a Pacific Beach Area Business Marketing Street Fair promoting the residents, businesses and community organizations of the coastal community.
“This free, family friendly event promotes and uncovers the Pacific Beach community brick and mortar and ‘from-home’ businesses we all love,” said event originator/promoter Mike Spangler of Spangler Event Productions. “Previous years, we packed Cass Street between Loring and Opal streets with an estimated 6,000-plus neighbors throughout the day. This proved to be a great opportunity to meet your neighbors and familiarize yourself with the local businesses in our beautiful neighborhood.”
One goal of the annual Sip ‘N Stroll is to distinguish North PB from the rest of the community by establishing its unique identity.
Sara Berns, executive director of Discover PB, the community’s business improvement district, said the annual North PB Sip ‘N Stroll “is an opportunity for the community to come together on a beautiful summer Sunday and experience the neighborhood side of our business district. As the beneficiary of the event, proceeds will go towards Discover Pacific Beach Clean and Safe Program that we started earlier this spring.”
Berns added the Clean and Safe Program, “has increased our cleaning and security capabilities throughout the district and, in order to continue the program for the remainder of the year, we must fundraise the remaining $40,000. What better way to help the community then to come out and enjoy a sip of wine, listen to our local students play some music and walk along side some of your neighbors while shopping at our local vendors?”
North PB is loosely defined as the section of the beach community north of the Grand and Garnet avenues commercial district, bounded by Felspar Street on the south, Turquoise Street on the north, Mission Boulevard on the west and Ingraham Street on the east.
The street fair will have a cross-section of representative local restaurants and businesses as well as presenting a fine wine and beer tasting garden. At the Stroll, Spangler said free space is donated to local non-profits such as Beautiful PB, SavePB, PB Planning Group, PB Library, The Gateway Project and a few others so they can interact with the community.