Phoenix transplants Chris and Jo Peregoy purchased the Ocean Beach Business Center in September 2017 after years of searching for the ideal vacation spot for their dog.
\nThey discovered Dog Beach, fell in love with OB and have never looked back.
\n“My wife and I both left corporate jobs and advancement opportunities in Phoenix to purchase the OBBC,” said Chris, adding, “Jo left most of her family, and I left my two eldest daughters, 11 and 7, to move here to run this business.”
\nThe Peregoys have worked hard ever since to clean up the old building at 4836 Santa Monica Ave., turning it into “a warm, welcoming, helpful community hub.”
\nThe couple\u2019s full-service store provides an array of copying, printing and shipping services, plus offering supplies, marketing materials, fliers and brochures, bulk mailers, binding, lamination and custom-designed orders.
\nLazy Hummingbird coffee shop also leases space in part of the OBBC building.
\n“We like to call ourselves the one-stop shop,” said Chris, adding,\u00a0“We are the only location in OB for single-page print jobs. We\u2019re also a main shipping center. We have Fedex, UPS and the post office right around the corner at our disposal. “Seventy-five percent of our top-line sales is shipping. Even though we\u2019re a business center, we\u2019re as much a shipping center.”
\nThe Peregoys had three goals in moving to OB.
\n“We wanted to get out of Phoenix, be by the beach and own our own business. This came up and checked off all three boxes. So we said, \u2018Let\u2019s do it.\u2019”
\nThe Peregoys have created a synergy with other OB small-businesses.
\n“We work really closely with Vintage Revivals,” noted Chris. “Their customers buy stuff and send them to us to package, because some of these things are 100-year-old antiques that need to go clear across the country. They trust us to bring their items here, have us package them up then find the best shipping rate.”
\nThe Peregoys are laser focused on OB.\u00a0
\n“We\u2019re very community oriented and we see a lot of local small-businesses come in and out of this building,” said Chris. “We support them, post on social media and tag their media accounts.”
\nPeregoy offered one successful local networking story.
\n“We helped a guy who used to sell pasta at the farmers market, printed out his paper menus,” he said. “Now he\u2019s got a storefront on Voltaire Street and is one of the most popular Italian restaurants.”
\nThe couple also give back.
\n“We have donated hundreds of boxes to the OB Toy and Food Drive in our first two holiday seasons here,” said Chris, adding, “We attended meetings and contributed to the planning of the OB Holiday Parade last year. We support local OB artists. We have four fellow OBecians with products for sale in our shop.”\u00a0
\nLooking ahead, the Peregoys would like to expand more as well as creating more self-serve space for customers to do packaging.
\nThe pair refer to their business as “our legacy we want to share with our kids.”
\n“We\u2019re doing this because we love this place,” said Chris. “We\u2019re here for the long haul. This is going to be a generational business. We intend on passing it down.” Ocean Beach Business Center
\n4876 Santa Monica Ave.
\nHours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday.
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