Cosa Collective (596 Indian Rocks Rd. N, Belleair Bluffs) is not your mom’s antique mall. Cosa Collective curates modern, vibrant, aesthetically pleasing, and predominately local brands. It’s a brick-and-mortar store with an open-air, artisanal craft-market feel, replete with vendors, for vendors, and by vendors. This space also includes The Break Coffee and Surf Co. for those who want to enjoy a latte and a croissant in the Cosa garden.
Being hand-crafted by small businesses, the items in Cosa Collective don’t lend themselves to the wholesale market. Instead of wholesale, many vendors predominately sell at seasonal markets. Cosa Collective facilitates a middle ground: the perks of a year-long wholesale with the intimacy of a seasonal local market.
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St. Pete community supports local vendors
Perched in the Belair Bluffs, just a block away from Prickly Pear Point, Cosa Collective incorporates a treasure trove of eclectic ceramics, seashell/shark tooth jewelry, aesthetic apparel, handmade crochet art, stained glass, organic bath products, and oceanic décor, among the 40+ vendors in the store. Even the patio space is dreamy, having been decked out by Cosa Collective’s exclusive plant vendor.
“Of all the places I’ve traveled, St. Pete is best when it comes to pop-ups and local creatives. The community support here is the best I’ve seen so far,” says the co-owner, Ayden Stoefen.
Cosa Collective enchants with dreamy atmosphere
“We wanted to make a space where people feel welcome to hang out and waste a couple of hours or work on something for a couple of hours,” says Ayden. With plenty of things to peruse, places to relax, and delicious cups of coffee to down from The Break Coffee inside the store, we could lounge here all day.
“We want Vendors to be happy constantly,” says Ayden. Indeed, Cosa Collective only takes 12% of the sales from vendor merchandise, much less than usual wholesale agreements, while managing all the products for the vendors. “Sales aren’t really the focus. The main focus is events and workshops,” says Ayden.
If you are a vendor seeking shelf space that requires minimal management on your part, apply for your products to be featured at Cosa Collective here. “We make sure the vendors are diverse enough where they are not stepping on each other’s toes,” says Ayden.
Check out more of the vibes at Cosa Collective by perusing their Instagram here and their list of vendors here.
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