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What you need to know about Florida today
› Jacksonville Jaguars' owner Shad Khan talks state of team, TIAA Bank Field renovation, Lemon Bar
In a 30-minute interview Saturday with the Times-Union, the 72-year-old owner – along with team president Mark Lamping – expounded on a number of topics. They ranged from matters of football, to the status of a potential renovation of TIAA Bank Field, to their support for keeping the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville, to Khan’s vision for his recent purchase of the Seahorse Inn/Lemon Bar in Neptune Beach.
› State pays millions to company employing undocumented workers linked to deputy’s death
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has paid more than $8 million to a construction contractor since authorities found it had hired several undocumented workers — including two men who have been charged in connection with the death of a Pinellas County deputy. The state contractor, Archer Western-De Moya Joint Venture, has a standing contract with the Florida Department of Transportation to do work on the Gateway Expressway in the Tampa Bay area.
› Orlando’s Skyline Attractions helps launch roller coaster inside art museum
A single-person roller coaster is mingling with museum patrons thanks to Orlando-based Skyline Attractions, designer of the ride that glides through an art exhibit by EJ Hill. “As far as we know, this is the first working, ridable roller coaster in a museum — ever,” says Chris Gray, Skyline’s vice president. The ride has been installed at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art — MASS MoCA, for short — and will be operating during Hill’s “Brake Run Helix,” which debuts at the museum in North Adams, Massachusetts, this weekend.
› Delray Beach’s Atlantic Crossing will finally open. What you’ll see: restaurants, apartments and lots more.
After a decade of planning, the doors are close to finally opening on the $300 million Atlantic Crossing development in downtown Delray Beach. Spanning nine acres along Atlantic Avenue just east of Federal Highway, Atlantic Crossing will feature restaurants, shops, 83,000 square feet of office space and 261 luxury apartments, making it one of the biggest projects in the city’s history.
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