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Collective is a multi-faceted company that conceptualizes, develops, and operates premium hospitality brands. Our group focuses on creating branded F&B and entertainment concepts, including full-service restaurants, QSR, nightclubs, lounges, and lifestyle venues.
His business endeavors in the hospitality industry have ranged from the development of several top-grossing F&B portfolios in tri-state to recently co-founding an entertainment company, having partnered with the biggest retail and entertainment complex on the east-coast to produce events with the likes of Tiesto, Steve Aoki, and 50 Cent, to name a few. In the last decade, he has built an expansive array of industry relationships, in turn quickly exposing his name onto the forefronts of the service industry. Notably, Marcelo assisted in developing several F&B locations along the “Gold-Coast” of New York and New Jersey. (Manhattan, Edgewater, Weehawken, Hoboken, Jersey City).
Most recently Marcelo partnered up with industry veteran Michael Himani to launch IXTA Cocina Mexicana + Mezcal Bar, a fine new example on The Bowery, having taken over Daniel Boulud's DBGB Kitchen & Bar, which closed in 2017.
FORBES
"No one leaves hungry at IXTA. In fact, you’ll likely leave with food for tomorrow, but more important, you’ll leave with a new sense of the regional variety and enticing seasoning of Mexican food of a kind you haven’t had before in this city." John Mariani (Forbes)
