The historic Hotel Savoy and Savoy Grill building is getting a fresh update that mixes a contemporary flair with existing Victorian and Arts and Crafts elements.

21c Museum Hotels LLC, based in Louisville, Ky., is redeveloping the property into a boutique “museum hotel” and enlisted the expertise of renowned New York-based architecture firm Deborah Berke Partners and Kansas City-based architecture and design firm Hufft Projects for the $47.5 million project. Although 21c hasn't announced a firm…

A young Birmingham company is carrying on the 100-year tradition of selling peanuts on a historic street in the Magic City.

A Louisiana-based hospitality company has agreed to buy the assets of Philadelphia-based Garces Restaurant Group for more than $5 million.

Ballard Brands offered the cash deal, which includes assumed liabilities, the two organizations announced Wednesday. As part of the deal, Garces Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Camden, N.J., also on Wednesday.

The Ballard-Garces transaction is expected to close in 45 to 60 days. It will be “business as usual” until then, the group announced.

Ballard…

The largest mixed-use project in the history of suburban Hutto has landed a tenant with plenty of Texas history and statewide recognition.

Barbecue restaurant Southside Market announced Wednesday it will open its third location at The Co-Op District, under development by MA Partners on U.S. Route 79 a little west of FM 1660. The 35-acre project is on the site of a circa 1937 cotton gin and agricultural co-op; four large grain elevators have been preserved.

At least $100 million of private development…

It's food truck season, and Tacos With Altitude is hitting the streets. The DBJ caught up with the husband-and-wife team behind the popular taco truck, and even got to watch some of the food being prepared.

“Mexican and Asian food is so versatile,” said owner Anita Lozano. “You can do high-end Mexican, and you can do street Mexican — something that you can't do with a lot of cuisines.”

Click play for an inside look at Tacos With Altitude.

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I was sitting in The Ohio Taproom April 15, enjoying a glass of Market Garden’s barrel-aged Smoke Monster, when I tweeted:

That was 16 days and 1,110 people ago. The Columbus Ale Trail wrapped up its third go around Tuesday with a mad rush in the last few weeks that drove its final redemptions to 2,370.

“That was about 1,370 more than we planned,” said Jim Ellison, co-owner of Columbus Brew Adventures, one of several partners behind the project that rewards folks for visiting local breweries.…

The two black men arrested at a Rittenhouse Starbucks last month have reached a settlement with the city of Philadelphia – a symbolic $1 and a promise from city leaders to establish a $200,000 program to help young entrepreneurs – as well as an agreement with the Seattle-based national coffee chain.

Starbucks announced Tuesday its agreement with Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson. It includes an undisclosed financial settlement as well as a commitment to continued listening and dialogue between…

The latest deal follows the local hospitality company's $73 million acquisition of Manhattan Country Club in Southern California last year, and its purchase of the Boulder Ridge Golf Club and Fairbanks Ranch Country Club in 2016.