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› Florida restaurant featured in Pepsi’s new ad campaign supporting Black-owned restaurants
A popular Ybor City restaurant is getting worldwide recognition. The restaurant, 7th + Grove, is one of several across the country featured in Pepsi’s latest ad campaign called Pepsi Dig In. It’s a platform that supports Black-owned restaurants by providing training, business growth opportunities and raising visibility for the industry.
› Florida Power & Light to Begin Accepting Applications Jan. 4 for Small Business Bill Credits Due to COVID
Florida Power & Light Company will begin accepting applications on January 4 for its new Main Street Recovery Credit Program, offering credits to qualifying small businesses that have been impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. FPL’s Main Street Recovery Credit Program is the latest of several initiatives, the total of which are valued at more than $75 million, that the company implemented to show its steadfast support of adversely impacted customers during the global pandemic.
› What could Weeki Wachee users lose so that the river wins?
Hernando County needs the Weeki Wachee River. The river’s headsprings host, in non-pandemic years, the most popular tourist attraction the county provides, the legendary Weeki Wachee mermaids. The county values that image so much that they are asking state lawmakers to give them ownership of the attraction’s old slogan — “The city of live mermaids” — for marketing purposes in the coming years.
› Hanania group buys Downtown Title & Trust Building in Jacksonville
Automobile dealership owner Jack Hanania and real estate investment partner Joe Hassan paid $1.8 million Dec. 28 for the Title & Trust Company of Florida Building Downtown. Duval County property records show the three-story, 12,000-square-foot building at 200 E. Forsyth St. was built in 1920, although its National Register of Historic Places registration form says it was developed in 1929.
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