On Saturday, March 8, the parking lot of the Westfield Southgate Mall in Sarasota will be transformed onto a one-of-a-kind outdoor luxury lounge setting.

Chillounge is an annual event, having been started by founder Rainer Scheer seven years ago. Scheer is a longtime Sarasota resident, and owned a gallery on tony Palm Avenue for quite a while. But when the economy started to flounder on the Suncoast, he started brainstorming about ways he could entice potential customers back to his gallery.