An iconic restaurant - Goody Goody - will be revived by Richard Gonzmart, fourth-generation co-owner of the Columbia Restaurant Group. Gonzmart is the new owner of the restaurant's name, signage and special hamburger sauce. He hopes to open in 2015 after securing a new location.
Business and community leader Maruchi Azorin, owner of Villa Rosa Distinctive Linens and a Cuban immigrant, is one of Florida’s role models for success. Her upscale store anchors a prominent intersection in Palma Ceia, a South Tampa neighborhood again experiencing the emergence of new boutiques, shops, residences and restaurants.
More than 200 jobs will be generated at the new Lakeland Park Center which officially opens on Oct. 23. It is the 20th Florida property owned and managed by Michigan-based Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust.
Before hotels, new residences, shops and a possible baseball stadium and University of South Florida medical school emerge in downtown Tampa, residents of the rapidly growing Channel District are coalescing to help influence what's next. Meet CUPS, as in Channel District Urban Professionals Society.
Owner Michelle Erhlich will open "Delicious Surprise" in mid-November, giving Seminole Heights its first plant-based restaurant in a remodeled pizzeria adjacent to Publix grocery store on Nebraska Avenue.
University Mall will welcome its first in-theater dining experience when Studio Movie Grill opens October 22 in the shuttered movie house vacated nearly six months ago by Frank Theatres. SMG is the 18th location for the Dallas-based chain and the first in Florida.
The reputation of Seminole Heights as a restaurant destination place is based largely on places such as The Refinery and Ella's, both on major corridors south of Hillsborough Avenue. The soon-to-open Bourgeosie Pig is potentially the catalyst to transform the farthest reaches of North Nebraska Avenue as the latest destination place in Seminole Heights.
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