a major role in the vibrant urban renewal taking place just off Halifax Harbour. Joel Plaskett, a Canadian rock musician, recently opened New Scotland Yard Emporium, a three-business partnership that features a record store, a coffee shop, and a hair stylist all surrounding his pro- fessional recording studio on Portland Street. “The music industry is huge around here,” Kevin explains, “and Scott and I play a lot of music together. We love going to see local talent and just being around the bands and the music. Scott is well on his way, actually. He’s in the middle of recording an album and has actually used Joel’s studio to record some of it, and it should be released in the months to come.” Plaskett has also enabled the Saccarys to realize another passion of theirs: giving back. In 2015, Plaskett reached out and asked the brothers to join him along with the “Friends of the Khyber” volunteer group in a fundrais- ing effort to save the registered Historic Property known as The Khyber in Downtown Halifax. “We did t-shirts for them and all of the money went back to save what is now called The Khyber Centre for the Arts,” Kevin says. Scott has been a member of the Canadian Progress Club – Halifax for four years and is no stranger to ambitious charitable events. “Last year I was the chair for one of our
respectively, away from New Scotland Clothing Compa- ny’s home base in Downtown Dartmouth. “We opened our very first location back in May at 20 Wentworth Street – which is just a stone’s throw away from our curling club. We always knew we wanted to be a Dartmouth company located in Dartmouth. We started asking around and came across Kate Hamilton, the owner of Bodega Boutique, who was planning to expand to a larger location downtown. It worked perfectly because we get to be in the middle of the growing and vibrant Downtown Dartmouth Commu- nity,” Kevin explains. “My wife and I are in the process of putting our home up for sale so that we can move downtown and raise our kids there like we were. There are a lot of new, young families doing the same thing – it’s an exciting time.” Scott lives on Lake Banook which is right in the heart of historic Dartmouth, just minutes away from their shop on Wentworth Street. “It’s quite overwhelming to be able to say that you are collaborating with a 160-year- old Canadian company.”
For those unfamiliar with Downtown Dartmouth, Wen- tworth St. intersects with Portland St., which has played
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