Baymeadows Corner is a few steps closer to taking shape at the site of a closed Miami Subs at 8355 Baymeadows Road.

Developers Paul and Louis Sleiman applied for a permit to significantly renovate the structure and expand it to 7,600 square feet.

Paul Sleiman said Friday most of the Miami Subs building would be demolished but some elements would remain, such as the structural columns and foundation.

The property is designed as three units comprising two retail stores of 2,500 and 3,000 square feet and a 2,100-square-foot restaurant and drive-thru. The restaurant seating is capped at 50.

The units are designed as tenant shells. Build-out would take place separately.

The Malle Co. Inc. is the contractor for the $600,000 renovation and addition. JAA Architecture is the architect.

On Friday, Triforce Development, led by the Sleiman brothers and Bueme Engineering applied for the administrative deviation from the citys zoning code for landscaping reductions. They await a final order.

The application says the proposed deviation is part of the efforts to rebuild the Baymeadows area and that the site has been vacant and deteriorated for many years.

Triforce, through Olde Mandarin LLC, would buy the property from 8355 Baymeadows Inc. of Orange Park.

A mobility-fee calculation certificate and a concurrency reservation certificate issued June 16 by the city show the site is between Taco Bell and Jiffy Lube.

Paul Sleiman said in July the plan is to redevelop the entire site, including the building, parking areas and monument sign. He said he expects to start construction in the fourth quarter.

The 3,600-square-foot Miami Subs building was developed in 1985. Miami Subs operated six area stores but closed them. The Baymeadows store closed in 2003.

The developer of the proposed Home2 Suites by Hilton at Deerwood Park Boulevard and Gate Parkway seeks a permit to build the five-story hotel at a cost of $7.5 million.

A group led by hotelier Kanti Patel wants to build the 64,438-square-foot project on 1.75 acres at 10715 Deerwood Park Blvd.

Omega Construction Services is shown as the contractor. Zona Architecture is the architect.

Plans show a pool and patio outdoors and the inside includes a breakfast area, meeting rooms and exercise room.

Patel said construction should start in November on the 104-room Home2 Suites by Hilton and he estimates the investment at $14 million to $15 million. The company said it should open in January 2019.

Home2 Suites by Hilton is a limited-service, extended-stay hotel.

The 3.54-acre site has space for a second five-story hotel, with 102 rooms. Patel said there was no decision on that development.

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Malik Hashim has a new San Bernardino restaurant under construction. When he wants to visit it, he goes to Los Angeles.

Hashim is a franchisee of Checkers & Rallys, a quick service chain with more than 800 restaurants serving burgers, chicken wings and seasoned fries.

In November, the Tampa company announced a strategy to give franchisees the option of prefabricated modular buildings as well as traditional builds.

Hashim took the modular option.

It saves a lot of time and money from having an architect, he said in a phone interview.

To be more specific, it shaves five to 12 weeks off the development timeline and saves as much as $100,000 on construction, according to a news release from Checkers & Rallys.

Hashim will take delivery of his Rallys restaurant at 1605 W. Baseline St. Workers will then hook up electricity and plumbing.

Target for opening is March 2018.

Checkers and Rallys has a third option for franchisees to save on construction, a model that recycles shipping containers as building supports. But thats not the model thats coming to San Bernardino, according to spokesmen.

The company has grown by more than 176 restaurants since 2012, according to the company, but it is not a familiar brand in the Inland Empire. There is a Checkers inside the Walmart Supercenter on Moreno Beach Drive in Moreno Valley.

There are also four restaurants in Orange and Los Angeles counties.

Checkers and Rallys have the same menus, which include loaded milkshakes and stacked, packed sundaes.

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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced the latest recipients of cash grants from the Motor City Match program on Monday Aug., 14, 2017(Photo: JC Reindl)

Thirteen Detroit-based small businesses, including a beer brewer, a construction contractorand aSouthern cooking restaurant, were awarded $500,000 in total grants Monday in the latest round of the city's Motor City Match program.

The quarterly event marked the two-year anniversary for the popular program, which distributes local foundation money as well as block grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to new and existing Detroit businesses in need of "gap funding" help.

To date, Motor City Matchhas distributed nearly $4 million to 87 businesses, of which 78% are minority-owned. The program focuseson small businesses that can play a role inrevitalizingneighborhoods and that may have struggled in obtaining enough traditional,commercial lending.

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"We are getting to where we want to be in creating business opportunities in the neighborhoods," said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who with the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. started the Match program in 2015. "We are creating a pathway for people who have the talent, who have the drive, but otherwise might not have had the financing."

Big Mama's Southern Kitchen was among this latest round of grantrecipients. The restaurant was given $40,000 to helprepair damage toits building at 19644 Grand Riverfrom a December 2015 fire of unknown origin that had forced itto close.

Restaurant co-ownersPatricia Clay and Natalie Day said the repair and renovation work is already under way and they hope to reopenin October. The restaurant is named for Clay's late grandmother, Lucy Carr, who was known as "Big Mama" andtaught her the Southern recipes that their customers will taste.

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"It's been a strugglebut we're doing it," Clay said of the restaurant's reconstruction."We always planned to reopen,it was just getting funded. We needed to get funded."

Construction general contractor The O'Neal Contracting Group received a $35,000 grant to help replace the roof of its headquarters at17160 Wyoming St.

Owner Greg O'Neal said his nine-employee company has been experiencing strong growth since 2014 thanksto the surge in apartment construction in and around downtown Detroit. The firm was recently awarded work at the $53 million Third and Grand residential and commercial project in New Center.

Monday's event was held inside a former 1940s post office that was converted into a workshop and future retail shop for Mutual Adoration, a past recipient of a $35,000 Motor City Match grant. The businessuses reclaimed wood to create furniture, gifts and other household items and plans toopen itsnew retail shop inside the building this fall.

The following businesses were awarded grants:

Batch Brewing Company, 2841 E. Grand Blvd., $65,000 Simply Breakfast Restaurant, 7526 W. McNichols St., $50,000 Vernor MC, 5705 W. Vernor Hwy., $45,000 Bar Botnica, 14522 E. Jefferson Ave., $40,000 Big Mamas Southern Kitchen, 19644 Grand River Ave., $40,000 Detroit Mushroom Factory, 13832 Joseph Campau St., $40,000 Rosedale Beer & Bistro, 18910 Grand River Ave., $40,000 The Congregation, 9321 Rosa Parks Blvd., $40,000 O'Neal Contracting Group, 17160 Wyoming St., $35,000 The Vernor Caf, 4110 W. Vernor Hwy., $35,000 Lacquered, 18685 Livernois Ave., $25,000 PizzaPlex, 4458 W. Vernor Hwy., $25,000 Tot Town Child Development Center, 8932 Greenfield Road, $20,000

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WATERLOO A new Perkins Restaurant & Bakery will be located at the former Lone Star Steakhouse site at San Marnan Drive and Hammond Avenue near Crossroads Center.

Construction is expected to start soon and the restaurant is anticipated to open in late September, said Matt Rahfaldt, vice president of operations of of Cy-Hawk Hospitality, which operates Perkins restaurants in Altoona, Ankeny, Fort Dodge and Sioux City, and in other states.

The existing Perkins on University Avenue in Waterloo is a separately-run corporate store and recently completed a remodeling. It has operated there since 1978, according to Courier files.

Were happy to be in Waterloo and we felt Waterloo could support a second Perkins, Rahfaldt said, as well as maybe a third in Cedar Falls at some point in the future. He said there is, in particular, a market for the restaurant in the southern part of the city.

Work is underway gutting the restaurants interior in preparation for installing Perkins fixtures, said Rahfeldt, an Ames High School and Iowa State University graduate now living in Kansas near Kansas City. Well make it look brand new, he said. He said the project represents a $500,000 investment by his company, its 14th Perkins.

Weve always loved doing business in Iowa, and Waterloo is a city thats been on our radar for quite a while, Rahfaldt said

The new Waterloo location will be staffed by about 80 full- and part-time employees and will feature Perkins full menu.

Lone Star ceased operations at the Hammond and San Marnan location in January. It had operated there since 1993. Lockard Development owns the building.

We are excited to have Perkins as a new tenant in our building in Waterloo, Lockard executive vice presdent Dave Wilson said. This will be an excellent location to serve the needs of the community. Lockard is very thankful to have them as a long-standing tenant, and that Tori Lockard and Dustin Whitehead on my team were able to secure them in this location.

In addition to its proximity to Crossroads, Wilson noted the new restaurant is close to Lost Island Waterpark and a considerable amount of senior housing in the area.

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Crews are working on both Interstate 81 and Interstate 690 and it's causing longer commutes and traffic jams for many drivers.

The summer season is prime-time for construction projects. If you need proof of that, just look at two major highways that run through Syracuse.

Crews are working on both Interstate 81 and Interstate 690 and it's causing longer commutes and traffic delays.

The delays coming into Syracuse on Interstate 81 north are heavy; it's right where downtown traffic comes onto the highway at the hospitals. Crews are closing the two left-side, the through lanes, between 9am and 2:30pm to avoid rush hour, but that means the work time is shortened, so the closures are expected to continue until Thursday.

That closure has proven especially tough when people approach the Interstate 690 interchange, according to state Department of Transportation spokesperson Gene Cilento. "A lot of the people coming up from the ramp wanna go left, and people on 81 wanna go right," he explains. "So there's a lot of weaving, a lot of movement of traffic in that small area. And, this is one of the busiest road areas in Syracuse, seeing almost 100-thousand vehicles daily.

It's going to be longer before the I-690 work near Teall Avenue is done - workers are almost halfway through this year's portion of a two-year project to rebuild the elevated areas of the highway there. However, after months of demolition dismantling, onlookers are now starting to see construction at the site.

"The pile driving just started within the past few days and there's also work going on clearing some demolition work on the Teall end of the bridge," Cilento said.

The massive construction project - and all the detours along Beech Street - is also tough on businesses in the area like Edward Joy Electric. They're working extra hard to let people know they're still in business."We just want to make sure that, with this construction and with the detours, they know that we're still open," Brandon Turner of Edward Joy Electric said. "We will be open even when they close the other exits as well."

There is some good news for the businesses and people who live close to the construction: It was really loud last week, as concrete was pounded off the bridge decks, but most of the demolition is done and the building phases should be quieter.

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Workers polish the open bar top area in front of the new Gaslight Social pub and restaurant on Wednesday, Aug. 2, in the Old Yellowstone District in downtown Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)

After months of preparation and construction, a new bar and restaurant is moving closer to its debut.

The new Gaslight Social space was filled with energy on Wednesday morning as construction crews put on finishing touches and electricians crawled and walked along freezer and kitchen areas built into the vast 1920s-era building. A newly-minted serving and kitchen staff numbering about 45 sat at the new bar as co-owner Matt Galloway ran down a list of orientation items.

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The latest opening target of Aug. 4 has been pushed out 7-10 more days due to some last minute kitchen issues, according to Galloway. When it does open, the vision of Matt, his brother Mark, and partners Pete Maxwell and Richie Bratton will be open for all to see. In the meantime, hes trying his best to keep it under wraps as best as possible.

What future patrons will see after opening day is three distinct areas of an 11,000 square foot space. A quiet lounge area, a pub area, and towards the back and flanked by huge vintage warehouse is a gaming area. an added bonus is about 6,000 square feet of patio and lawn area outside of a garage door on the west side.

The earlier Roaring 20s concept evolved into The Gaslight Social over time after one of the partners noticed real gas lamps during a visit to Nashville. Those style of lamps will be incorporated into the new space. As for social, Galloway wants to convey that his bar and restaurant isnt just a bar and restaurant. Social really defines us, said Galloway.

The establishment on the corner of 314 W. Midwest Ave. is one of a number of big and smaller downtown projects rushing to open before the Eclipse Festival later this month.

Service crews go through orientation at the new Gaslight Social on Wednesday, Aug. 2, in downtown Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)

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This northern suburb has long lured diners to its popular 3-mile-long Restaurant Row along Milwaukee Avenue. But despite its gastronomic prominence, the village of Wheeling has no real downtown, even though it was founded in 1894.

That is about to change.

After years of planning and overcoming obstacles, the construction of a downtown is finally underway in the village 30 miles northwest of Chicago.

What does a new downtown cost? The tab here is $110 million.

A town center will rise on a 16.2-acre vacant site created by the demolition of the bankrupt Wickes Furniture property on Dundee Road at Northgate Parkway. The site is surounded by existing structures that set the stage for a downtown area, such as the village hall, police and fire stations, park district recreational building, aquatic center, ball fields, a lake and a commuter rail station on Metra's North Central Service line.

Presently, crews are laying foundations for the town center. Here's what to expect at the opening, slated for late 2018: A five-story, 300-unit apartment building will wrap around a 25,000-square-foot plaza with a pool, putting green, bocce court, fire pit, barbecue grills and a gazebo. The courtyard will serve as a central gathering place for residents and the surrounding community.

Nearby, the center's 100,000-square-foot retail area will be anchored by a 10-screen CMX movie theater with reclining seats and dining and cocktail options. City Works Eatery and Pour House of the Chicago-based Bottleneck Management restaurant group will be across from the theater, and other restaurants and shops will be a short walk from the apartments.

The town center is expected to provide a considerable boost to Wheeling's population, which now stands at more than 38,000.

"The town center will revitalize the community and become a destination for the area," said Patrick Horcher, Wheeling village president. He said it is the most upscale development in town.

"It has been a long time in coming," he said, alluding to the project'sups and downs. "After the village bought the Wickes property in 2008, it was a challenge to find a developer to do the town center. The site stood vacant for a while and was costing the village in lost property tax revenue."

The long planning process required the village to reach agreements with many stakeholders in the complex public and private project. These included the U.S Postal Service, a fuel pipeline company, Metra, the Wheeling park district and an existing Burger King near the entrance to the town center that was concerned about access and signage, according to John Melaniphy III, Wheeling's director of economic development.

Once the project was designed, some residents were concerned about whether the space would attract enough tenants, both residential and commercial. But after the groundbreaking in late July, Horcher concluded: "We're now on target for the town center we wanted years ago."

"I can't wait for the opening. It will be a huge new focal point in the village," said Neal Katz, a 30-year resident of Wheeling. He believes that " People will be moving back."

"The town center will enhance property values and be a catalyst for future development," Melaniphy said. "It will change Wheeling's image, which has previously been known as blue collar because of our industry."

He suggested that the town center will benefit existing retail and restaurants rather than rankle them as a source of competition. "Because (the town center) is projected to be a regional attraction, it will draw out-of-town customers to the village's other retail and restaurants," he said.

Melaniphy estimated the town center could generate $1 million a year in sales tax revenue.

"The town center will keep more shopping dollars here and will add a more cosmopolitan character to the village," commented Neena Pottoore, executive director of the Wheeling/Prospect Heights Chamber of Commerce.

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A five-story, 300-unit apartment building will wrap around a 25,000-square-foot plaza with a pool, putting green, bocce court, fire pit, barbecue grills and a gazebo. This rendering depicts the courtyard pool.

A five-story, 300-unit apartment building will wrap around a 25,000-square-foot plaza with a pool, putting green, bocce court, fire pit, barbecue grills and a gazebo. This rendering depicts the courtyard pool. (The Lynmark Group)

That citylike feel is expected to woo renters Melaniphy said most of the apartments will be one- and two-bedrooms targeted at young professionals and empty nesters. Residents will have 500 parking spaces, while 800 slots will be dedicated to retail and dine-in movie theater consumers.

Along with shopping and cinema, a smattering of other entertainment options are in the works.

"The town center will host community events like fairs, festivals, art shows and farmer's markets," said Bradley Friedman, director of Midwest operations for the Lynmark Group of Suffern, N.Y., the project's developer.

New town centers are riding a national trend, according to Ed McMahon, an authority on sustainable development at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, D.C.

"Downtowns are the heart and soul of any community, and the future belongs to town centers. New suburban town centers are replacing failed regional malls in many parts of the country," he said.

"Wheeling's new town center will create a new place for housing, shopping, playing, eating and hanging out. The demand today is for town centers that are gathering places that attract young people as well as retirees."

Real estate experts certainly see the appeal.

"We're finally going to get a downtown. It will definitely be a big plus," said Gary Aver, broker and owner of Re/Max United in Wheeling. "It will make house values more stable and could increase them in the long run."

According to Tracy Cross, president of Schaumburg real estate consulting and market research firm Tracy Cross & Associates, the town center "should do well despite its relatively small size compared to other town center projects, such as the Glen in Glenview." The 1,121-acre Glen, built on the site of the former Glenview Naval Air Station, opened in 2003.

Cross said the Wheeling town center may create a real estate ripple effect if renters at the new apartment building later decide to buy a house in the suburb. He added that one impact of the town center could be to establish a premium in housing values.

Construction projects this large sometimes generate complaints from nearby residents. However, that is not a factor here because the town center is not in a residential neighborhood. It is bounded on the west by railroad tracks, on the east by village buildings, on the south by an 85-acre park and on the north by vacant land.

The town center was designed by the Chicago office of CallisonRTKL and will be built by William A. Randolph of Gurnee.

John Handley is a freelance writer.

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The inside of Jack Fry's restaurant. The restaurant is adding space for its servers, for a few more tables and bigger restrooms. (Courtesy: Jack Fry's)

One of Louisville's most revered restaurants is getting more space.

Jack Fry's, a 20-table upscale restaurant on Bardstown Road, soon will add four to six more tables, build bigger restrooms, expand storage and office space and add a server area.

In all, it will add about 1,300 square feet to the 3,300-square-foot restaurant. A building permit filed with Louisville Metro Government indicates an estimated construction cost of about $40,000.

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The renovations will happen in three phases, so as not to disrupt the daily operations of the restaurant. It will start with the addition of the server space, which will be on the front side of the building, the part facing Bardstown Road.

General manager Brad Jennings said contractors will enclose a "pie-shaped" space at the corner of the restaurant to give servers their own area. As it is now, they share space in the kitchen with the kitchen staff, making for a cramped back of the house.

The renovation also will include construction on the back end of the building, which faces an alley. With a small addition, the restaurant will add space for the restaurant office, more storage space and bigger restrooms.

Jennings said this has been a thought for a while because the single-person men's and women's restrooms were an obvious problem area in the small restaurant.

"Its an inconvenience for women to wait on a one-person restroom. And men," Jennings said. "It's something that's needed to be done. It seemed like the right time to undertake the projects."

After those two phases are finished, the third phase of the project will happen.

"Once thats complete, we will tear out the existing restrooms, and that will make space for a few extra tables," Jennings said.

He said the expansion could make room for four to six new tables. Jack Fry's is not always able to take all of the reservations it receives in a night, he said, so this should help relieve some of the pressure.

"This really should accommodate more people and let more people experience what we do here," he said. "That alone will allow us to accommodate parties of larger sizes."

The renovations hopefully will be done within a few months, wrapping up as soon as September, but possibly going into October. Jennings said it's hard to tell because construction just began.

But, Jennings said, the vibe of the restaurant will remain unchanged, with the same Jack Fry's ambiance to which customers have grown accustomed since its 1930s opening.

"With the exception of a couple walls and a few more tables, it's really not going to change that much," he said. "It will still feel very, very much like Jack Frys."

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It was the best birthday present she had ever received, Janice Coats said.

For Coats, who is newly 92 and uses a walker to get around, it was difficult to get up and down her front porch steps.

But now, thanks to some volunteers who started helping others like Coats in Little Rock and North Little Rock 30 years ago, her life is a little easier.

"I thank the Lord for it," she said of the plywood ramp she now has to help her leave her home for church and visits to the doctor.

In 1987, a group of mostly AT&T retirees started meeting nearly every Wednesday to build ramps for people who use walkers and wheelchairs. Three years later, the Americans with Disabilities Act passed, requiring most businesses to install ramps. But many people still didn't have access to their own front doors.

"You think about this: Someone who's [in a wheelchair], they put themselves at risk every time they attempt to leave," said David Shatley, the group's construction coordinator.

Not all families can afford to install a ramp, and members of the AT&T Pioneers saw that need as well as an opportunity to make use of their free time after retirement.

The group now consists of more than 30 volunteers and has built more than 1,250 ramps, at a rate of about 40 per year.

Demand is steady. At any given time, Shatley said, the group has two to six ramps on its to-do list.

The basic frame is standard and complies with Americans with Disabilities Act regulations, but each ramp is unique and specific to the person's home, he said.

"You tend to remember every one of them," Shatley said of the ramps and their grateful recipients.

The materials for each ramp cost from $350 to $1,000. Community development block grants in Little Rock and North Little Rock fund the projects.

"The government can only do so many things, and we've got to depend on our people to contribute, to volunteer," Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola said at a ceremony honoring the group last week.

Not all of the volunteers are AT&T employees, Shatley said. Some retirees happen to pass by while the group is working and want to know if they could help, too.

"We'll take anybody that wants to come out and that wants to help," Shatley said. The group now includes retirees from CenterPoint Energy and the Little Rock School District.

Ramp construction can begin as early as 5:30 a.m., and when the volunteers finish a project about 9 a.m. or 10 a.m., they usually go to breakfast at Homer's Restaurant or another diner-style restaurant, former construction coordinator Gene Butler said.

Butler said he enjoyed working with the crew, even on projects that were sometimes "a comedy of errors," resulting in minor injuries to group members. The work was always rewarding, he said.

"It's just a really good group," he said. "Being retired is good, but it's nice to be able to contribute."

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