Published 12/18/2013 by Rob Meronek
Before construction, there must be destruction. After closing on our building last week, we're making progress on The Boardr Headquarters as you can see in these photos by Justin Ryan. Yep, it's called The Boardr Headquarters. That will be our home base. We are dreaming big with the thought of multiple locations in the future. Wish upon the same star with us?
8/1/2013
Well I need somewhere to put all this silly crap I like to do like foot fetish, Nerdsday Thursday, skate photos, silly videos, and other random banter. So, I started The Boardr today after my last day at Skatepark of Tampa. The Boardr will house all the stuff I love about skateboarding plus a new system I'm creating to help people simply and easily run skateboarding events with a digital, mobile scoring system. Shortly after August, it then evolved into a full blown skateboarding professional services company where I'm partnered up with Ryan Clements. Thanks for stopping by.
12/17/2013
One giant and sorta scary first step in building a skateboarding company has been taken, now it's time for thousands of little ones to follow.
12/10/2013
Every week on Tuesday, we're dropping a little bit of info on our plans and bid'niss doings for the future. Here's the first installment. You shopped for shoes and gadgets on Black Friday? We shopped for real estate. Specifically, buildings. Specifically, warehouses.
1/19/2014
Everyone's on manual labor while I'm on digital labor. We're trying to get the basics set up for online retail doors opening up on February 1. I have a few more photos dumped from my camera here for you. Thanks for following along with our adventure to build something in skateboarding from the ground up.
1/23/2014
A couple things happened this week that made it seem that much more real with all this skateboard bid'niss building we're doing around here. We got our first order of retail inventory in and our first online registration dollar hit the account.
1/26/2014
I've got a few more construction photos and an exciting announcement. We have a toilet!!! An epic milestone at The Boardr Headquarters. It's just a week away before we flip the switch on our little online shop that could. As I've mentioned, we're starting out small and growing slow.
1/30/2014
Please join us on Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 2pm for a BBQ and skate session on the Dream Driveway at Ryan Clements' house.
1/31/2014
Right now I'm in the back of a truck with Clements and Porpe as we drive across the state of Florida for some meetings and a special private event we're assisting with in West Palm Beach.Our mobile internet is running and this is where I'm flipping the switch from. The Boardr Store is now live and our first tiny baby step into retail has started.
2/13/2014
There's so much going on here from events planning to systems work to physical buildout to financial stuff to skate park ideas that I can't even keep track of where I'm at and what I've documented. We're working smart and steady here still putting our 2014 together while I pause here for an update. Our tenants in the other half of our warehouse are now out so we can start figuring out what will work for our facility to play with our skateboards in.
2/20/2014
For the past couple of weeks we set up our offices inside the empty store at The Boardr. Looks like we need a new place to conduct the behind-the-scenes business since our first displays arrived today. Here are some photos of the progress. We open on March 3rd.
2/25/2014
We haven't started building anything for The Boardr TF yet, but Big Al and Sarge are here building a ramp bed for Southern Living Magazine. Kids have it so much better these days. All we ever had was a plain old flatground bed.
2/27/2014
That building in Tampa near the Bucs Stadium with no sign that you might drive right past? Yep, that's us at 4611 North Hale Avenue. There's no party, no fireworks, no naked ladies jumping out of cakes, and there's not even anything to skate! It's just the door opening up if you want to stop by and check out what we're up to here and maybe play a Game of SKATE on our glorious flatground in the empty TF. Join us for the low key, mellow ass, bland opening at 11am on Monday, March 3rd. We've got a lot of work left to do. Sometime down the road we'll make the real opening grand instead of bland.
3/7/2014
Retail might be dead as vert and slow as Nate Sherwood right now while we just get started, but the events side of things are stacking up nicely. You can't be running the documentation with one of my crappy cell phone edits. So what are we going to do about that? Clem has to crack the whip on Porpe to get it taken care of.
4/21/2014
Well, it sure isn't going to be any of us working here. We'll stick to the Business Team at The Boardr. For the real team, we're proud to announce our first pro.
4/18/2014
We're continuing to slowly grow our Store, add new brands, and lay the foundation for our long term plans here at The Boardr which doesn't just include all these events we're doing. It includes retail. I love the sketchy skateboard industry and everything about it. If you're not part of it, I hope you get to work in it someday. There's never a dull moment. If you haven't been to The Boardr Store in a while, I've got a few photos for you.
4/30/2014
Now that we've got some time to stop and breathe from having one big event behind us (NYC) and another one just about complete (Vegas), we can finally start dedicating some attention to the homefront. Yep, it's another baby milestone for us here at The Boardr. Today starts construction on our TF! We're going slow and calculated as usual with this project, too. I don't know my physical construction tools very well, but I do know there are some things in this photo that indicate concrete. Damnnnn, it's on. Feels like we're finally getting furniture in an empty home. Right now all I have for you is this one single photo.
5/12/2014
HiDefJoe has an edit from the first session and I've got a few construction photos from our first obstacle built in The Boardr TF. Thanks Jason Ranft for the manual labor. Zumiez also threw in on this one, so thanks to them for our first step towards an unempty warehouse.
6/20/2014
Take a quick tour in photos through The Boardr Store. Everything you see is also in stock online with immediate shipping. Thanks for stopping by!
7/3/2014
All I knew was that things had irreversibly changed where I was and I had to move on and join up with Clements and Porpe who had left months earlier. It was a scary move with a kid on the way and no real plans. That was one year ago today. A lot of things have gone down since then. How about a recap? Let's start with a few high level numbers. As you know, I'm attracted to the digits.
11/24/2014
We did a lot of events for 2014 and now that the year has wrapped up, we need ideas for 2015. Who better to ask than the coolest guy in skateboarding?
