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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

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Are you familiar with the acronym NIMBY? It stands for “not in my backyard” and refers to the phenomenon of people wanting or needing certain things, like cell phone towers or roads or shopping centers, but not wanting them to be too close. “Put that in someone else’s neighborhood,” the […]

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Fri Aug 24, 5:15pm

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For quite awhile now, it has looked as though Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse would occupy one of the prime positions at Unicorp National Development Inc.’s Winter Park Lakeside development. That all may have changed, however. Earlier this week, the director of the project said he is “reconsidering” giving Ruth’s Chris a […]

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Fri Aug 24, 5:14pm