More than one way to cluster

Rabih Saba and Marwan Ayoub are the founders of Venture Group, a development and consulting group known for its hospitality clusters.The group developed Uruguay Street in 2012, followed by The Village Dbayeh and The Backyard Hazmieh. Saba and Ayoub sat down with Executive to discuss their new venture, Restos St. Nicholas, as well as their future plans for developing more diversified clusters. E   Can you tell our readers more about your newest project, Restos St. Nicholas, in Ashrafieh? The project was a joint venture with the landlord [Emile Sabbagha], who is the owner of Sabbagha Development, a land and real estate development group. We would say it’s one of our most strategic and harmonious partnerships, not in the least because Emile is an engineer himself, and so was integral in the development process.      Starting with this partnership, we developed what we like to call a boutique cluster