Event planner makes use of free time during pandemic to create new business

Ronnie Lee's online store DowntownPete.com sells pop culture and other miscellaneous items.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 11:30 a.m. August 5, 2020
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Courtesy. Ronnie Lee is selling mystery boxes through the new online store Downtown Pete.
Courtesy. Ronnie Lee is selling mystery boxes through the new online store Downtown Pete.
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The pandemic has caused events nationwide to be canceled left and right. 

That’s the case for St. Petersburg-based Ronnie Lee, co-owner of Cheers! Events and event and music venue St. Pete Side Lot with his wife, Kristin Coffey. “Everything came to a screeching halt,” Lee tells Coffee Talk. “It created a lot of idle time.”

 

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