We were very excited when these arrived at our office this morning:
Best of all is that they're peppermint flavour, so they're probably good for you as well!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
We're now open for business
Ocean Optometry opens its doors!
After what seems like a lifetime of preparation, we are finally opening our doors for the first time in a few short minutes. In the clinic today is Dr John Wilson, with Erin and Mike there to keep everything running smoothly.
All of the preparation will hopefully serve us well, everyone is really fired up to ensure we provide the highest level of attention to detail and service quality possible.
If you would like to make an appointment then please feel free to call on (902) 446-4470 or use our contact form, you can also now call in to the office as we are open!
Many thanks to everyone involved in getting us to this point.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Gatecrahsers, Glasses & Getting Funky
On Friday night we had our opening party to celebrate getting everything together. It was a great success, with many friends joining us to share in the celebration and we partied into the late night! We attracted quite a bit of attention and some passing revelers called in, some taking a little time to browse around, with a promise to call back when we were open properly!
The office simply looked amazing!
With the bright, airy open dispensary it made a great area to have a party (and has given us inspiration for future events!). Several hours of funky tunes were already selected in our play list, which kept everyone grooving along. We were also visited by Snap Halifax, who knew it would be that kind of a party!
Our photographer-in-residence, Brad Avery, spent a lot of time with everyone, getting a great selection of photos for us to view later. Brad has some great ideas of photo shoots when some of our ranges come in, so it is going to be exciting working with him as our go to guy for Ocean Optometry images.
We were even gatecrashed by a local star of screen and stage - once we have the photographic evidence we'll update our news!
Here's a photo from the night with the Ocean Optometry eye geeks crew altogether:
John, Erin, Mike & Euan
Remember, we are open for real from the 8th of April, please feel free to send us an e-mail or give us a call for an appointment.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Thank you!
We are just about to enter our final day of preparation, before we go live on Monday (although there still is the weekend).
This seems like a perfect opportunity to thank some of the people who have got us to this point:
Castone Construction have been our principal contractor in all of the renovations, owner Dean Shea was keen from the outset to provide us with a turnkey solution and project manage the build for us - we're glad that he did. A big thank you goes to Castone, they have done a superb job, on time and on budget. They have met deadlines, followed-up, shown when promised - ideal contractors. A special thanks goes to Wendell who has been hands on managing the job-site for us.
Their contact details are on their website: http://www.castoneconstruction.com/ Telephone: (902) 406-3395
Millroi Construction specialise in decorative concrete solutions and they have really worked a miracle on our floor. There is no doubt that a good reason that our office feels so bright and spacious is thanks to the hard work of Matt and his team at Millroi Construction. They have been meticulous in the project planning, ensured that they have managed to dovetail around the other construction people at the various stages of the build and even helped us out when we had a flood! Perhaps the nicest finishing touch to Millroi's work has been the inlaying of our logo on the office floor, simply beautiful.
It's been great fun working with EyeCandy Signs - they are going through their own crazy time at the moment with moving to a new location. Even with all of their own activity they have managed to pull together our order with little fuss at all. Awesome job, guys!
Monday, April 1, 2013
It's started!
John, Erin & Mike hard at work. Euan's supervising!
We all arrived at 7.30am this morning, keen and eager to get into the finishing week and to meet with the truck delivering our equipment.
Guess what ... no truck! They'd forgotten and should be with us, oh, about an hour ago! Never mind.
We got cracking with putting together some of the furniture and cleaning up the windows. The first collections of frames have already arrived, but we're good and not opening the box until we get some of this work done first.
We've got some great Eye Tunes to keep us motivated this morning - so far it's been Fat Boy Slim and The Human League. I suspect it's going to get more 'eclectic' as the day goes on!
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