Daily Archives: June 26, 2014

Second Rum Distillery Wants To Move Downtown – Florida Keys

A rum company named after one of Key West’s favorite literary giants has plans to open up in Old Town, where the island’s first legitimate rum distillery sits about 400 feet away.  Hemingway Rum, which makes Papa’s Pilar rum, has filed its first application with city hall to start the approval process required to turn…

Lakeland Downtown CRA Passes On Picking Best Option for Proposed Development

LAKELAND | A city board Thursday could not pick its favorite of two radically different proposals to develop 10 acres of city-owned property near the Lakeland Police Department. Downtown Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board members voted 6-1 to pass the matter to the City Commission without their own recommendation between a massive mixed-use development called…