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The Next Generation

P The New to go visit my whole family. Growing up here in Fort
Lauderdale, I wouldn’t have changed it with any other city
A in the world.

R Faces of When you’re not working what your

T favorite diversion?
Soccer.
Las Olas You could have set up shop anywhere why did
2 you choose Las Olas?

By Luke Moorman Because my childhood was only on Las Olas. My father,
back the early ‘90s, owned Il Tartufo, and in the late ‘90s
had Café Europa. I was eager to come back and make a
Emerging business stamp on the Las Olas Boulevard, given the potential it had

leaders bringing new when he left Las Olas to go to the beach.

Aside from your own, of course, what’s your
life to the boulevard favorite place on Las Olas?
Vinos.
In the last issue of Las Olas Boulevard & Isles, we brought
you a few of the faces bringing new energy to the boulevard. What’s your most special memory about
the boulevard?
This month we want to add two more to the list. Have
others we should include in this ongoing feature? Tell us at My most special memory of the boulevard is the amazing
tradition of Christmas on Las Olas.
publisher@lasolasmag.com.
And to those who have just begun to make Las Olas more Do you have an “only on Las Olas” story?
vibrant, welcome to the neighborhood. When I created my first pizza from scratch, on the
shoulders of this Italian pizza chef who was about seven
feet tall, he would toss the pizza dough up in the sky to
reach it. Creating this beautiful symphony of the simple
education of food, and the art of pizza making.

Maurice Padula
CEO of the Gran Forno Company
1235 E Las Olas Blvd., 954-467-2244,
granforno.com
Can you tell us a bit about what you do? Brewster Knott
Property manager, New River Yacht Club
I am an up-and-coming business man of the new
400 SW 1st Ave., 954-715-4663
generation. Millennials. CEO of the Gran Forno Company.
Can you tell us a bit about what you do?
Where’d you grow up and what was it like there? I am the property manager of the New River Yacht Club
I grew up here on the east side of Fort Lauderdale. We luxury apartments. I am responsible for the marketing and
also went to Italy for a couple months throughout the year operations of the building, but more importantly, I am

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