Local Flower Shop To Expand Into Mesquite

By ANNIE C. LEAVITT

Moapa Valley Progress

The Front Porch flower shop in Overton is expanding business this week and opening an additional location in Mesquite. A grand opening celebration with a ribbon cutting hosted by the Mesquite Chamber of Commerce will take place on Friday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. at the new shop located at 61 N. Sandhill Blvd. Suite 3 in Mesquite.

Owner Charlene Udall looks forward to offering services to Mesquite, Bunkerville and Beaver Dam residents from the new location.
“About three years ago I started gaining customers from Mesquite,” Udall said in an interview last week. “When I thought about them driving to Overton (to do business with us) I had the thought ‘everybody needs a Front Porch store’.”

To Udall, The Front Porch is not just a cozy flower shop with gifts and goodies and many other services.
“It’s giving warmth and kindness and a feeling of home,” she said. “Everyone deserves this kind of store and service and that’s what drives me to serve more than just our great community.”

When asked what motivates her to run the business, Udall said that she loves making things pretty for people.
“I just love, love,” she said. “I always think about that and I love to love people and show that through flowers or my store or having employees that love their job.”

Udall is proud of her employees who give comfort to those grieving, add happiness to weddings and other celebrations and put a smile on a face with an unexpected flower arrangement. There is no detail left unnoticed or made even prettier at The Front Porch.

The new store is located in the previous Jamba Juice location. It is a small space. But Udall said that, with the help of employees, a 2,000 square foot store now fits into the 1,000 square foot space.
“Everything has fallen into place in amazing ways,” she said.

The Mesquite store will employ four to five people with employee Katie Eastman building and planning all of the furniture, displays for merchandise and window displays.
“This wouldn’t have been possible without Katie,” Udall said.