Business View Civil and Municipal l January 2023

132 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 of the fun at Cocoa Beach. Surf festivals are a major draw, including the annual charity event, Surfing Santa’s, where sleighs are traded in for surfboards and Santa tries to catch some waves. With hundreds of Santa’s participating, this event draws a huge crowd every year. “We’ve been working a lot at sponsoring different events that the bigger organizations do in our towns, such as Surfest and Thunder Boats,” says Karin Grooms, Public Information Officer. “It helps not only the businesses, but it helps with recognition for the city. These events are usually worldwide. Cocoa Beach has a very positive name across the eastern seaboard, especially the west coast. So, we try to assist and help with the surf contests or any other worldwide event that would come here, just trying to focus on these small businesses here in town that put on these larger events.” Cocoa Beach is also looking into an incubator program, as Hayes explains, “We’ll look at our downtown, look at possible incubator programs in the sense of potential FIT FOR PURPOSE SOLUTIONS BOWMAN.COM DORAL 305.222.1945 FORT LAUDERDALE 954.314.8481 BOYNTON BEACH 561.423.1135 FORT MYERS 239.337.7335 PENSACOLA 850.433.6438 PORT ST. LUCIE 772.249.0733 MELBOURNE 321.255.5434 STUART 772.283.1413 TAMPA 813.474.7424 WEST PALM BEACH 561.840.8650 SUNRISE 954.314.8480 CIVI L ENGINEERING • GEOSPATIAL TRANSPORTATION • RIGHT-OF-WAY