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home in Northern California
When film directors
need to find the perfect location for their shoots, they call
Debbie Regan. For 15 years, Regan, who runs Debbie Regan Locations
out of her home in Old Westbury, N.Y., has been finagling her way
into private homes, estates and penthouses in the New York tristate
area, with film crews in tow. Projects she’s worked on have starred
the likes of Woody Allen, Robert DeNiro, Derek Jeter and 50
Cent.
Meeting and event planners also can
lean on Regan or other location scouts who have established
relationships with homeowners, to find properties not otherwise
available to the public.
Want to organize an unforgettable
dinner at an estate on a breathtaking mountaintop? Or in an Italian
villa near the Golden Gate Bridge? Per-haps a ch0teau would do the
trick? These venues are all part of the portfolio of Mint
Locations, formed last year in San Francisco by location scout
Cindi Osborn and former event planner Nancy Frumkes, and which
specifically targets meeting planners as clients. “Our homes are
‘wow’ homes,” Frumkes explains. “When you walk up the driveway, you
think, ‘Oh my God!’??”
Nancy Grigor, who operates Hamptons
Locations in Amagansett, N.Y., says her corporate clients generally
hold meetings at other properties and rely on her to find memorable
places to spend the evening.
Scouts are used to satisfying a wide
range of requests. “I just got a call for a 1-year-old’s birthday
party for 250 people that specified it had to be a place nobody’s
ever used before,” Regan says. “I’m thinking Mars.”