A neighborhood grocery store is planned for the former
home of Tutwiler Cadillac at the southwest corner of Meridian and 24th streets. The vacant building across from the Library
Services Center most recently served as home to a business furniture store. The plans call for a 16,000-square-foot grocery
store, along with an additional 3,000 square feet for retail or office space. A site plan submitted by local architect Craig
McCormick shows a sales floor of 9,300 square feet and an entrance along Meridian Street. It does not name the grocery store
brand. The developer is Johnny Diaz, who owns grocery stores under various names in South Florida and New York. 
The one-acre site will have 62 parking spaces, fewer than the 118 mandated
by code. However, the city planning staff supported the project in part to encourage reuse of the urban site, which is serviced
by bus routes and is in close proximity to several apartment buildings. Plans call for the demolition of a small portion of
the building that juts out from the main building toward 24th Street, to make way for more parking. The city still is waiting
on a detailed landscaping plan. A co-branded Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins is set to open in the former home of Bonjour
Cafe across the street; the restaurant just won approval to add a drive-through. Another developer two years ago had proposed
a funeral home for the grocery site but later dropped the plans.
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Ameriana Bank took over Westfield Farmers Market for 2013 and it is held in their parking lot, corner of 32 and Carey road, 5 to 8. I am selling soap and candles there. great market!
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B&T certainly has enough of our taxpayer dollars to do this thanks to Mayor Ballard. Given the firm's exceedingly poor reputation in the legal community, the basement would seem a better option.
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Should read MAY hire 20 people.
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Not a good location for a 300,000 home. 10th Street fumes, buses, noise. Max for this location 150,000.
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The state constitution also does not say that the majority has a right to quorum, nor that the minority is required to allow them quorum. In fact, denial of quorum has been a parliamentary maneuver since the establishment of the first parliaments in the early 1600s. The right to deny quorum (and the requirement fore quorum) are to prevent exactly what happened in Indiana: A tyrannical majority pushing through odious, objectionable legislation. Denial of quorum is totally legitimate, and lest we forget, a tactic the GOP has employed many, many times to ensure their issues weren't given short shrift. By allowing the majority to impose "fines" on the minority for exercising the authority the constitution grants them (to deny quorum,) they are violating the constitution.
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Great for the area. Will help the whole midtown area.
From SSC:
Brothers Jimmy and John Diaz at their Diaz Supermarket location at 212 West Mowry Drive. In 1976, Adalbert Diaz moved his family from New York City to Homestead. In 1979 with the help of 1st National Bank of South Florida he opened the first Diaz Supermarket on Moody Drive and Southwest 135th Avenue.
Thirty-one years later, with the financial assistance of 1st National Bank of South Florida, his sons, John and Jimmy and daughter Aida Brunelle, and Johnâ??s wife Mercedes, own and operate
three grocery stores and the Princeton Insurance Agency, all located in the Homestead area.
I actually think IGA's would be a good fit for some of our smaller neighborhoods around the area. Most of those smaller areas are representative of some smaller/rural cities in some instances as far as income/demographics, etc.