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Friday, April 6, 2018
Vol. 105, No. 100 • One Section
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‘Lady Lexington’ hotel renovation nearly complete
Gateway Village permit in review M Hospitality, Burrito Gallery among tenants for site near St. Johns Town Center. Soon the walls will rise at Gateway Village at Town Center. The city is reviewing a permit application for construction of a 9,520-square-foot multitenant retail shell building at a cost of $1.14 million. No contractor is listed. The retail building will sit on 1.77 acres of the 18.5-acre project area at southwest Gate Parkway and Deerwood Park Boulevard. Developer Cantrell & Morgan previously submitted plans for the building, which will feature Burrito Gallery and M Hospitality Restaurant & Catering Group by chef Matthew Medure. No ten-ant has been announced for the remaining central 1,840-square-foot space. It also plans a 9,380-squarefoot retail building on 1.47 acres next to it. The four tenants filling that building are Sushi House, Bellezza Nails & Spa, CycleBar indoor cycling and MyDry Blowout Bar. Gateway Village will be a retail, commercial and apartment project. No hotel is planned at this time.
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Art Casey (left) and Bernie Moyle at the new front desk at the Lexington Hotel & Conference Center. Waiting to check in guests is Mercedes Roberts.
Only minor finishing touches remain in two-year-plus transformation of former Wyndham on Southbank. By Andrew Warfield Associate Editor Just more than two years after it began, the effort to restore the Lexington Hotel & Conference Center on the Southbank is nearly complete. One day before the start of the annual Imperial Tattoo & Art Festival, workers were putting the final touches Wednesday on the new bar and lounge area, which
was finished just in time for one of the hotel’s biggest annual events. “Bringing back Lady Lexington, as we refer to her sometimes, has been a long, hard struggle as we were both operating and renovating at the same time, so it took longer to do some things than we would have liked,” said Bernie Moyle, chief operating officer of Coral Springs-based Red Lion Lexington
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The rooms at the Lexington were stripped to the masonry and now have larger bathrooms and new furniture.
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True Food Kitchen plans $1.8 million renovation of former Mitchell’s Restaurant chain seeks permits to redo space at St. Johns Town Center. By Karen Brune Mathis Editor Phoenix-based True Food Kitchen applied to the city for a $1.8 million interior and exterior
conversion of the former Mitchell’s Fish Market in St. Johns Town Center. The permit calls for Phoenix-based True Food Kitchen to renovate the 7,540-square-foot free-standing restaurant along with 1,064 square feet of exterior space. Wolford Retail Builders Inc. of Tampa is the contractor and Aria Architect of Oak Park, Illinois, is
the architect. True Food Kitchen has not confirmed a timeline for the restaurant, planned at 5205 Big Island Drive. Simon Property Group is an owner and the manager of St. Johns Town Center. “We’re working on solidifying an agreement with Simon, but it hasn’t been formalized yet,” Special to the Daily Record
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True Food Kitchen opened in February at Town Center at Boca Raton.
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