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The owners of local restaurant and bar chain University of Beer are adding a new tiki bar concept to their business portfolio.

Eat Street Crossing Food Hall has announced its final concept, Sushi Dori, a chef-driven sushi bar that will feature creative sushi rolls, rice sandwiches, and a variety of snacks.

A newly formed ownership group has closed on 64.2 acres of an iconic mall in north Phoenix as it prepares to demolish most buildings on site and start construction on new apartments as part of a larger mixed-use project.

The former bank building on the site was recently torn down to make room for the popular chain restaurant.

“It’s a hideous building so to finally be able to do what we wanted to do for a long time there is great.”

The Clayton-based maker of healthier chocolate bars will serve up chocolate-based alcoholic beverages, including espresso martinis, as well as pastries in its revamped space.

CBF Morning Run: We scrimped and saved and were able to put down 10% of the purchase price of a 1,200-square-foot house in the heart of Clintonville. Of course, that was 1993.

National cookie company Crumble already operates a franchise in Amherst with a second in development for Clarence. Plus, a Niagara Falls restaurant has a new operator, and a Hamburg bar/restaurant closes for now.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has announced the inaugural class of its new Arts and Culture Incubator, which will provide resources and mentoring to nine local organizations and two Cincinnati-based theater artists.

The program will offer members the ability to grow their existing work through the use of spaces in the new main stage theater complex, which opens in March, for classes, events, rehearsals, creative work, networking and collaboration. The Playhouse also will provide professional…

Dusky Norsworthy, founder and CEO of Behind the Scenes: “Fulfillment is perhaps the most essential part of the customer experience.”