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› Florida Theatre plans for major renovations with Jacksonville mayor's newly proposed budget
Major renovations could be coming to one of Jacksonville’s most popular downtown theaters. Action News Jax dug into Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry’s newly proposed budget and found $5 million will go to the Florida Theater Performing Arts Center, if it is approved. The Florida Theater first opened in 1927. It has been renovated twice since then, in 1983 and again in 1994.
› Rob Gronkowski to Miami? Probably not for football, but check out the sleek condo he just bought there.
Surely Dolphins fans won’t mind inviting Rob Gronkowski to the neighborhood. The recently retired New England Patriots tight end just bought a condo in Miami for $1.7 million after selling his Boston penthouse for $2.3 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.
› Entrepreneurial couple learns valuable lesson during unexpected break from business
Husband and wife business owners Adam and Kim Peacock had more than the usual entrepreneurial worries — happy clients, software bugs, etc. — on their mind late last December. That’s because a week before Christmas, the Sarasota parents of two young children got some dreaded news: Their then 4-year-old daughter, Kinsley, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of eye cancer, retinoblastoma.
› $1 billion highway plan in doubt. Hearing reveals it would save Kendall drivers just 6 minutes
Three minutes one way and three minutes back on a two-hour round-trip commute from West Kendall to downtown. That’s how much a proposed $1 billion highway extension through wetlands meant to help preserve the Everglades could save on travel times for West Kendall residents.
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