WINTER HAVEN | In a span of three decades, Lillian Juhler witnessed the rise and fall of Winter Haven’s downtown, all from the doorway of her family’s clothing store along Central Avenue. It began in 1930, when Juhler’s Ladies Apparel joined a host of clothing shops, dime stores and drugstores downtown. “My parents had been…
Today literally is a red-letter day for a new business in downtown DeLand. The Jimmy John’s chain of sandwich restaurants is planning to open a franchised shop on the corner of Woodland Boulevard and Wisconsin Avenue by the end of the month, but not before it has an exterior sign. And that signage is a…
A veteran Tampa developer is planning a gated townhome community a block and a half from bustling Beach Drive in downtown St. Petersburg. Called Regent Lane, the 20 homes at 141 Fourth Ave. N each will have three bedrooms, three and a half baths, a private elevator, roof deck and two-car garage. Prices for the…
