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› Clearwater gives another grant for future restaurant downtown
Another Cleveland Street building owner has received a city grant to renovate space for a future downtown restaurant. According to the grant application Jafif signed with the Clearwater Redevelopment Agency, the money will pay for the costs “to improve the building’s appearance and value, and to attract food and drink establishment tenants that will be open nights and weekends.”
› North Port may ban tobacco sales to youths under 21
A planned ordinance, modeled after those in Fort Lauderdale and Alachua County, is primarily meant to target vaping and e-cigarettes and would exempt active military personnel.
› There’s a new hidden cocktail lounge in Miami Beach. And you can get even get a shave
The Nautilus by Arlo Hotel in Miami Beach has got a whole new jam — and look. The iconic Art Deco property recently underwent a face lift, and we are loving the results. A highlight of the makeover is a cool, little cocktail lounge in the lobby: The Blind Barber, which first opened in New York’s East Village in 2010. There are spots in Los Angeles and Chicago.
› Owners of Orlando gold coin business face federal charges in $7 million Ponzi scheme
Lori Ann Lewis was doing charity work in downtown Orlando when, by chance, she ran into someone who worked in the gold business. It was in the lobby of the Seacoast Bank skyscraper in 2016, just before the presidential election, when she met Susan Kitzmiller, an employee at U.S. Coin Bullion, a precious metals investment firm. In a lawsuit that would later be filed in Orange Circuit Court, Lewis recounted her new friendship with Kitzmiller and how she was allegedly led to invest all the money she’d saved for retirement in silver and gold.
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