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It takes guts to try to penetrate the restaurant market in Orlando, the home turf of Darden Restaurants’ Olive Garden and Red Lobster. The owners of a new themed eatery seem undaunted, however. Cave Inn BBQ has occupied commercial real estate along Tilden Road in Winter Garden and recently opened […]

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Fri Aug 24, 5:23pm

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Americans just love cars, and we’d never give them up for anything. Or would we? Although this sounds like a hypothetical, it is actually an issue that is being studied in fields as diverse as urban planning, public health and commercial real estate. The reason is that cars take a […]

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Fri Aug 24, 5:22pm

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Orlando Fashion Square, the floundering mall near the city’s downtown, is testing out a new way to attract customers: an indoor farmers’ market. Eat More Produce, a Winter Park-based company, will sell vegetables, fruit and other farm-produced items, like eggs and granola, in the shopping mall’s west court every Saturday […]

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Fri Aug 24, 5:17pm

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In many cases of commercial real estate development, developers will seek tax breaks, services in kind or even outright cash from local municipalities. The thinking goes that development is good for a communities because it provides jobs, boosts tax rolls and makes valuable services available to local residents. Not everyone […]

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Fri Aug 24, 5:16pm