Boston Seaport by WS Announces the Exciting Return of Snowport, a.k.a winter in Seaport

Let the season start on November 10, 2023

Created with The Makers Present, Seaport’s Iconic
The Vacation Market at Snowport in partnership with Fixed Contact,
will host 120+ Small Companies and 17 Meals and Beverage Ideas

WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Each winter, Boston’s Seaport neighborhood will get shaken up in a magical snow globe and reworked into Snowport, a fantastical winter wonderland of excellent instances, presents, video games, artwork, meals, and particular occasions. Snowport, will return for the fifth yr, serving as the final word vacation spot for Bostonians and vacationers alike. The neighborhood is crammed with actions and occasions, together with outside iceless curling, evergreen trimmings and timber at The Tree Market, an annual vacation tree lighting, Gentle Up Seaport (December 1st), annual Menorah Lighting (December tenth), and naturally, Betty the Yeti sightings all through the season. Snowport will as soon as once more function the long-lasting The Vacation Market at Snowport, in Partnership with Fixed Contact, and created with The Makers Present. The luminous and enchanting open-air market will showcase over 120 companies, in addition to an inviting eating space with 17 meals and beverage ideas. The Seaport neighborhood transforms into Snowport on November 10, 2023 with full particulars and dates outlined beneath. Go to www.bostonseaport.xyz/snowport and observe @seaportbos to be taught extra, and download Snowport photography here.

“We’re thrilled to welcome again so many unimaginable small and native distributors to the neighborhood, in addition to our companions at Fixed Contact. Snowport and The Vacation Market have shortly turn out to be a favourite custom for therefore many households, mates, vacationers, and vacation revelers. We won’t wait to unfold the vacation cheer and rejoice the season collectively once more,” says Ariel Foxman, Vice President, Model & Expertise, Boston Seaport by WS Improvement.

“Snowport creates such a singular and charming seasonal expertise in Boston and is a crucial driver of tourism within the colder months. That includes the biggest vacation market in New England, coupled with enjoyable leisure, culinary and cultural choices, Snowport generates a buzz and vacation allure that entices guests to decide on Boston,” shares Martha Sheridan, President & CEO of Meet Boston.

THE HOLIDAY MARKET AT SNOWPORT
In Partnership with Fixed Contact,
created with The Makers Present

Open seven days per week, November 10 – December 31, 2023
100 Seaport Boulevard, Boston Seaport, MA 02210

In its third season, The Vacation Market at Snowport in Partnership with Fixed Contact will function greater than 120 small companies, 30 % are new to the market, 60 % are native to Boston and the New England space, and 71 % are minority and/or feminine owned. Consumers will discover a wide range of distinctive giftable objects of all mediums together with artwork, equipment, attire, jewellery, dwelling décor, gourmand treats, handcrafted trinkets, and extra from returning distributors and dozens of latest ones. Highlights embody:

The whole record of companies collaborating at The Vacation Market at Snowport may be discovered on-line, www.bostonseaport.xyz/holidaymarket.

Additionally returning to this yr’s The Vacation Market at Snowport would be the beautiful 10-foot-tall Mistletoe Archway; the fan favourite Presents Place, that includes a backdrop of colourful, outsized presents; and the Winter Want Wall, a 25-foot interactive chalkboard the place visitors can share their vacation needs. New to the market, buyers can discover the Crafting Nook by The Maker’s Membership, which is able to host inventive workshops for each youngsters and adults to make holiday-themed crafts, equivalent to mason jar snowglobes and adorning vacation wreaths, or decoration making and enjoying with Vacation-themed sensory bins for teenagers.

The meals and beverage choices on the market will stay as giant and delectable as ever. The ten,000-square foot outside eating house will embody 17 meals and beverage ideas. The immersive setting will embody an après ski themed lounge with daring pink Adirondack chairs accompanied with fake hearth pits and a heated tent with further beer backyard model seating, which can be rented for personal and semi-private occasions. New this yr are 4 holiday-themed bars equivalent to a ringing “Jingle Bar” adorned in a whole bunch of bells and “The Dizzy Dreidel” decked with spinning dreidels. Friends can get pleasure from a wide range of festive craft cocktails and heat drinks, together with the Vacation Sizzling Mulled Cider by Downeast Cider – a warming winter deal with thoughtfully crafted with recent New England apple cider, toasted American oak, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

From savory to candy, meals choices are aplenty together with:

• Baked Cheese Haus serving conventional Swiss-style Raclette
• Cheese Wheel Pasta serving made-to-order pasta in big cheese wheels (New)
• Bluefin with hearty bisques, chowders, and lobster mac n’ cheese (Returning)
• ZaZ Food Truck with Caribbean jerk rooster, hush puppies, and coconut shrimp (Returning)
• The Frenchman’s Crepes serving up conventional French candy and savory crepes (Returning)
• North East of the Border tacos (Returning)
• The Nada Cart serving empanadas (Returning)
• Plant-based candy treats from Clarke’s Cakes & Cookies (Returning)
• Cheese Louise well-known grilled cheese (Returning)
• Breezy Hill Orchard donuts and cider (Returning)
• Tuscan Kitchen will function a seasonal cocktail program, its wood-burning oven for Neapolitan pizza, together with heat savory favorites like arancini and meatballs (Returning)

The Vacation Market at Snowport will run seven days per week:

• Monday by Thursday, 3:00pm – 8:00pm
• Friday and Saturday, 11:00am – 9:00pm
• Sunday 11:00am – 8:00pm

In the course of the peak vacation season (December 11 – December 31), the market may have prolonged hours:

• Sunday by Thursday, 11:00am – 8:00pm
• Friday and Saturday, 11:00am – 9:00pm

The Vacation Market shall be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and December 26^th.

For the second consecutive yr, The Vacation Market at Snowport is in partnership with Constant Contact, a Waltham-based digital advertising platform utilized by small companies and nonprofits world wide. Fixed Contact has expanded its partnership this yr to offer digital advertising instruments and steering for market distributors to assist them attain extra clients, seize their curiosity and develop. As a particular bonus for vacation buyers, Fixed Contact may even present free reward wrapping for anybody visiting The Vacation Market at Snowport throughout Small Enterprise Saturday weekend (Nov. 25 and Nov. 26).

“The vacations are a magical time of yr, and for a lot of small companies, this three month interval is essential to their success and continued viability,” stated Frank Vella, CEO at Fixed Contact. “As champions of small enterprise for almost three many years, we’re proud to supply distributors at The Vacation Market at Snowport entry to Fixed Contact’s advertising platform. With highly effective instruments to assist them seize buyer data on-site at Snowport, maintain buyers engaged after they go to, and drive extra gross sales, we ship every little thing these small companies want to inform their tales and meet their year-end goals.”

To supply The Vacation Market at Snowport, Boston Seaport by WS Improvement has as soon as once more partnered with The Makers Present, a curated market platform rooted in social justice with many years of expertise producing New York Metropolis markets. Promising a dedication to selling fairness and group funding by native marketplaces, The Makers Present believes in preserving assets in native economies by utilizing sustainable supplies in addition to amplifying companies owned by BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, ladies, and different underrepresented teams in addition to serving to shoppers store regionally.

“We’re excited to return to the Seaport this vacation season with an eclectic mixture of crafts and makers. The Vacation Market at Snowport is not only a whimsical one-stop-shop for guests, it is a life altering financial alternative for the collaborating enterprise homeowners. And for the second consecutive yr and in partnership with WS Improvement, we’re dedicating funds to the Snowport Scholarship, a program that permits underrepresented teams to take part at a backed fee. We’re proud to proceed to foster the expansion of a various group of distributors and guarantee an inclusive market for all,” says Julie Feltman and Tiziana Indelicato, Founders of The Makers Present.

GIVE IT A CURL IN SNOWPORT
Open seven days per week, November 10, 2023 – February 25, 2024
101 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210

Take pleasure in iceless curling at Snowport, which debuts in a brand new location alongside Harbor Means, the place you possibly can e-book day by day curling outings with mates, or join classes. The North Finish Curling Membership will present complimentary Study to Curl lessons on choose Saturdays from 2pm – 4pm. Curling Lane reservations may be booked prematurely through bostonseaport.xyz/snowport. The Visitor Companies Gondola, staffed with Snowport ambassadors shall be on-hand to help with actions.

Curling at Snowport shall be open seven days per week:

• Monday by Thursday, 3:00pm – 8:00pm
• Friday and Saturday, 11:00am – 9:00pm
• Sunday, 11:00am – 8:00pm

In the course of the peak vacation season (December 11 – December 31) and winter trip week (February 19 – 25), Curling at Snowport will lengthen its hours:

• Sunday by Thursday, 11:00am – 8:00pm
• Friday and Saturday, 11:00am – 9:00pm

Curling shall be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and December 26^th.

THE TREE MARKET AT SNOWPORT
Open seven days per week from 9am – 8pm, November 17 – December 23, 2023
65 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210

In partnership with Christmas Tree 4 Me, The Tree Market at Snowport shall be positioned down the block from The Vacation Market, and it’ll promote vacation timber, wreaths, kissing balls, in addition to tree stands and lights. Consumers will be capable to buy and cargo timber instantly into their autos, or they will schedule a supply proper to their houses.

LIGHT UP SEAPORT & HOLIDAY STROLL
Friday, December 1, 2023, 5pm – 9pm
Seaport Frequent, 85 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210

On Friday, December 1, the 50-foot vacation tree, the biggest tree in Boston, adorned with 10,000 twinkling lights shall be lit. The seventh annual tree lighting program will function a night of musical performances on Seaport Frequent. The occasion may even embody a vacation stroll all through the neighborhood the place 60+ Seaport retailers shall be providing one-night-only promotions. Discover Betty the Yeti at Betty’s Blizzard Bluff in The Superette Courtyard for an unique meet and greet. Plus, for these unable to attend, tune into NBC10 Boston for reside protection of all of the festivities, performances, and extra. RSVP for the occasion through bostonseaport.xyz/snowport.

MENORAH LIGHTING
Sunday, December 10, 2023, 4pm – 6pm
One Seaport Courtyard, 60 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210

Seaport celebrates Chanukkah at a Menorah Lighting celebration with Chabad of Downtown Boston on Sunday, December 10. Friends shall be handled to a spectacular gentle present together with conventional treats together with kosher jelly donuts and chocolate gelt. RSVP for the occasion through bostonseaport.xyz/snowport.

CeleBETTY SIGHTINGS
December 27, 2023
January 7, January 21, February 4, February 18 and February 21, 2024
12pm – 3pm
Betty’s Blizzard Bluff at The Superette Courtyard, Boston, MA 02210

Betty the Yeti will return to Snowport after a summer time’s relaxation and rest within the Himalayas for selfies and photographs along with her followers. Seaport’s star superstar will make particular neighborhood appearances all through the winter season as she settles into her Blizzard Bluff, at The Superette, Boston’s Finest Out of doors Purchasing Advanced as awarded by Boston Journal. Make sure you rating a Betty the Yeti plush, and different elusive Betty merch, at The Vacation Market, or on-line on the Seaport Store, the place proceeds will go to 826 Boston, a nonprofit writing and tutoring middle positioned in Egleston Sq., devoted to supporting college students ages 6-18 with their inventive writing abilities. To see a few of the inventive writing that the 826 college students have written, Seaport has printed a group of quick tales impressed by Betty, and that e-book is included with every Betty buy. As well as, new Betty the Yeti cocktails shall be served on the bars at The Vacation Market at Snowport the place $1 per Betty cocktail or mocktail offered shall be donated to 826.

NEW YEAR’S EVE ICE SCULPTURE STROLL
Sunday, December 31, 2023, All Day
Neighborhood vast

Seaport will take part within the Boston Harbor Now New Yr’s Eve Ice Sculpture Stroll. This particular full-day celebration will function a number of large-scale ice sculptures, together with considered one of Betty the Yeti and others all through the neighborhood for all to get pleasure from.

About Boston Seaport

Tradition, business and group converge making Boston’s Seaport district a dynamic and vibrant space that has shortly emerged as probably the most thrilling neighborhoods and locations within the nation. Seaport is at present Boston’s single largest growth mission. WS Improvement is remodeling 33 acres of waterfront land with a fastidiously chosen mixture of residential, lodge, workplace, retail, leisure, civic and cultural makes use of, and public open house throughout the district. Combining the very best of historic and modern-day Boston, Seaport is the vacation spot for vogue, tradition, arts, eating and leisure, and know-how and life sciences, increasing Boston’s place as one of many prime cities on the earth for innovation, science, and high quality of life.  For extra data go to www.bostonseaport.xyz, observe Boston Seaport on Fb, and @SeaportBos on Instagram and Twitter.

About The Makers Present

Bringing over a decade of New York Metropolis vacation market-making and retail expertise, Founders Julie Feltman and Tiziana Indelicato created The Makers Present (TMS) as a mixed-use retail market platform rooted in social justice. Promising a dedication to selling fairness and group funding by native marketplaces, TMS believes in preserving assets in native economies by utilizing sustainable supplies in addition to amplifying companies owned by BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, ladies, and different underrepresented teams. And naturally, serving to shoppers store native. TMS creates immersive and festive marketplaces that have interaction, enchant and encourage.
@themakersshow; www.themakersshow.com

About Fixed Contact 

Constant Contact delivers every little thing small companies and nonprofits have to construct, develop and succeed. With highly effective on-line advertising instruments, contact administration and gross sales options, and modern AI capabilities, Fixed Contact makes it simple to draw the proper individuals, have interaction extra clients, shut extra offers and develop.

About WS Improvement

Massachusetts-based WS Improvement is a mixed-use developer with a singular mission: creating locations individuals need to be. With an strategy that values artwork, science, innovation and, above all else, individuals, WS strives to have interaction every group it serves with best-in-class experiences, designed with our clients, tenants and companions in thoughts. Established in 1990, WS is considered one of few vertically-integrated actual property firms that conceptualizes, owns, operates and leases greater than 100 properties that vary from cutting-edge city areas to life-style and group facilities. With over 22 million sq. ft of present house and an extra 9 million sq. ft underneath growth, it is likely one of the largest privately-owned growth companies within the nation. For extra data, go to www.wsdevelopment.com, name (617) 232-8900 or observe WS Improvement on LinkedIn.

SOURCE Fixed Contact