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› Ribbon cut at Jacksonville’s new law school
Mayor Lenny Curry cut the ribbon at the Jacksonville University College of Law dedication ceremony Sept. 1 at JU’s Downtown campus in VyStar Tower. Photo above From left: JU College of Law Dean Nicholas Allard; City Council President Terrance Freeman; Curry; JU Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs Christine Sapienza; and JU President Tim Cost. Classes began Aug. 8 for the cohort of 14 first-year students.
› A new restaurant is planned for Delray Beach’s iconic Ellie’s 50′s Diner. It likely will later be turned into luxury housing.
The doors are closed on Ellie’s 50′s Diner, but the retro restaurant that operated for 32 years in Delray Beach will soon be reborn with a new tenant. In the short term, the plan is for the site to remain a dining establishment with new operators and a new theme. In the long term, the property along Federal Highway in north Delray Beach will likely be transformed into a housing development. Ellie’s 50′s Diner, founded by Bob and Ellie Smela, was one of Delray Beach’s more distinctive locales, featuring pink and turquoise coloring, neon lights, life-sized Elvis and Marilyn Monroe statues and a pink 1957 Chevy parked out front.
› Sarasota County's new headquarters projected to cost at least $72 million
Somewhere within 2 miles of Interstate 75 between Fruitville Road and Laurel Road is the target of the Sarasota County administration to build its new government center, where it will relocate after it vacates its facility in downtown Sarasota. Settling on an 8-acre site in the Fruitville Farms development just north of Celery Fields, many of the administrative staff workers will move to the new four-story, 120,000-square-foot building when the county turns over its current 170,000-square-foot headquarters and two adjoining properties to Benderson Development Co.
› Universal Orlando trademarks possible names for Epic Universe hotels
Universal Parks & Resorts has trademarked two names that may hint at the monikers of the new Epic Universe theme park's future hotels. On Sept. 1, the theme park giant, owned and operated by Philadelphia-based cable giant Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA), trademarked two names — Universal's Stella Nova Resort and Universal's Terra Luna Resort.
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