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› Cigar company to develop hotel, restaurant at historic property
J.C. Newman Cigar Co. has announced plans to restore the Sanchez y Haya hotel in Ybor City, which it acquired in August 2020 for $650,000. The historic property, located at 1601 E. Columbus Drive, will again operate as a hotel when it reopens in late 2023, according to a press release. It will also feature a restaurant and cigar lounge.
› A gated community will replace a vacant Delray Beach golf course. Some question whether that’s the best use of the land.
As Delray Beach continues to face a housing crunch, developers plan on transforming a vacant golf course on Atlantic Avenue into a 79-home gated community. But the project has sparked some concerns about whether upscale townhomes are the best use of the city’s scarce available land.
› Big Storm Brewing buys Bradenton’s Darwin Brewing
One of Tampa Bay’s biggest craft breweries is expanding its reach south of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Big Storm Brewing, based in Clearwater, has purchased Darwin Brewing, an award-winning brewery and taproom in Bradenton. In a statement announcing the move, Big Storm’s owners said they hope to expand the “hyper-local brand throughout Florida,” but especially as it relates to Darwin’s kitchen.
› ‘The city will help us.’ Miami Beach took cash, fast-tracked tower on Champlain’s edge
When Miami Beach city officials rushed to greenlight construction of an 18-story ultra-luxury condo tower just across the city line from Champlain Towers South, no one knew the 40-year-old building in the neighboring town of Surfside was teetering on the edge of collapse. But the leaps Miami Beach officials took to bring the Eighty Seven Park tower from concept to reality are now under scrutiny amid litigation and investigations into what caused a once-in-a-generation building failure at Champlain South that killed 98 people in June.
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