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What you need to know about Florida today
› New autism center in Cape Coral is first for Southwest Florida
The 3,900-square-foot support center, officially named the Family Initiative Lizbeth Benacquisto Autism Support Center after the former Florida Senate member, is Southwest Florida’s first facility dedicated to championing individuals with the Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as their families.
› At 22 South, a new kind of food hall takes shape in St. Petersburg
When members of the Callaloo Group decided to open a food hall inside St. Petersburg’s Historic Manhattan Casino, they knew they had their work cut out for them. For one, they’d operated a different restaurant in the city-owned space before — one that didn’t quite take off as planned. Food halls are popular, but what would make theirs stand apart from others? And how could they honor the building’s legacy while fostering economic development and supporting the surrounding community?
› $9.2 million conveyor in review for Amazon in Jacksonville
Amazon.com’s West Jacksonville investment continues. The Seattle-based e-commerce retailer, with 12 identified but not all confirmed area locations, is building-out a sortation center in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center. The city is reviewing a permit application for a $9.2 million project to install conveyors and sortation equipment in the 278,237-square-foot facility at 13450 Waterworks St. at southwest POW-MIA Memorial Parkway and Waterworks Street.
›Parrot Heads rejoice: Jimmy Buffett sets four outdoor concerts in Delray Beach in May
For many the perfect harbinger of better days ahead, Jimmy Buffett will return to live performances with four socially distanced outdoor concerts on Delray Beach’s Old School Square 8 p.m. May 13-14, 17-18. Tickets to see Jimmy Buffett with Coral Reefer Friends go on sale 10 a.m. Monday, April 26. The cure for your pandemic blues is not cheap: Pods of four seats start at $450.
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