Its official history says Nelson, the founder, knew little about operating a restaurant business, but had learned all about cooking barbecue from his father in Eastman, Ga.ĭemand became such that Nelson started bottling his sauce and marketing it. The company started with a small restaurant on the corner of 15th Street and Tamarind Avenue in West Palm Beach where, Paladino said, he used to play music. “We will offer pulled pork, ribs, chicken and at least eight side dishes and, of course, our bottled mild and hot barbecue sauce and our new wing sauce.” “It will initially be a drive-up/take-out with outside tables and, later, we will submit applications to add a drive-through,” he said. A request for rezoning has already been filed with the Palm Beach County Commission. Military Trail, west of Lake Worth, near 10th Avenue North. Paladino plans to open drive-up/take-out restaurants around the county, with the first Original Blue Front BBQ planned for 3311 S. He and his family purchased the iconic “Blue Front Bar-B-Que” sauce company last year from Annie Nelson, company president and widow of the founder, Norris Nelson. He maintains a website,, where a click or a keystroke lets you hear him warble and gives you a brief musical history.īut one dream he had did become a reality. 4 when he plays at the Metropolitan Room, 34 W. His voice has been likened to Frank Sinatra and his dream of a New York gig will be realized Sept. Paladino plays music now and then, and sings. “I’ve still gone unnoticed,” Paladino said, seated in his Palm Beach apartment strewn with eclectic ornaments of his life: a giant giraffe, an antique pool table, a photo of him playing guitar at 14 with his pals at the Sailfish Club and, of course, a piano. Their goal was a project called Downtown/Uptown, and although it crashed around them, it laid the groundwork for an urban development that brought housing and retail together and simultaneously wiped out a crime-ridden, blighted area of West Palm Beach. He still has grand plans, this man who fears no one will remember him as the developer whose vision led to the assemblage of land that became CityPlace.ĭavid Paladino has no statue or plaque - as did his late business partner Henry Rolfs does - crediting him with the risk-taking maneuver that brought 77 acres together in downtown West Palm Beach in the 1980s.
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