Port Lavaca is booming with new businesses
Port Lavaca – Robin Kacir slipped on the sparkly crystal bracelet she found at the newest shop downtown. “Honey, it’s purple,” the owner of Randy’s Floor Co. said, shaking her wrist. She smiled at the women and strutted out the Iguana Way entrance, passing by several pink flamingoes.
Flamingoes gave gift shop owners both the idea for a sign and the name – The Funky Divas.
“She’s more diva,” Robin Sikes said about co-owner Melissa Crowley. “I’m more funky,” Sikes said, laughing.
Port Lavaca’s unique downtown, with its characters and eccentricities – the mayor sells and appraises antiques at Indianola Trading – attracted the women to open their shop on April 1. New businesses moving into an up-and-coming leisure-driven tourist destination breathe new life into the historic downtown.
“It’s just a matter of time that progress is made,” Coldwell Banker Russell Cain real estate agent Jan Regan said.
