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Update from March 30, 2015 – The Ming Tree has been demolished and construction is underway on its replacement, Maddio’s Pizza, plus a few other stores.
News broke last week that The Warehouse, a local watering hole near FSU, was closing (or is it “being kicked out”) to make way for yet more so-called “student housing”. Based on the obscene amount of new “student housing” that has already claimed entire neighborhoods around campus it makes you start to wonder just how…
When I was a kid back in the 70’s there was pretty much one “major” shopping center in DeLand: Woodland Plaza. This place had everything. It had a Roses, it had a Winn Dixie (or was it a Pantry Pride, or maybe both at different points…), it had a Super-X drugstore (which sounds like an…
Built in 1971, this was a 160 unit motel with what was billed as a large lobby area, restaurant and conference rooms. It was two stories with concrete block construction and a brick veneer. The property was 3.4 acres and zoned CP “Commercial” with 400 feet frontage and a full median cut. The 2007 property…
It has probably been 25 years since I stepped foot into the Sweet Shop across from the FSU campus, and while a lot has changed at FSU over those years there’s a lot of the 96 year old Sweet Shop that is still the same. I was disappointed to see that the juke box which…
After our scouting trip on Tuesday we were all set for a fun afternoon at the North Florida Fair, and after cashing in a couple Savings Bonds to cover the costs away we went. It was a nice, somewhat cool day and thankfully the fair was not crowded at all, although by the time we…
Its been just over a year since Wild Waters in Silver Springs, FL was finally closed (a result of the State of Florida taking over it and it’s sister park, Silver Springs, as well as the aging infrastructure of the park itself and cost to maintain/upgrade). I’d been to this water park more than any…
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