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Astros owner’s son sells power business to focus on Crane Worldwide
Jared Crane founded Incite Energy LLC in 2012 and the power company has some high-profile multifamily customers. Now Crane is selling the business to focus on his family's company, Crane Worldwide Logistics LLC, and the Astros Foundation.
Aid available for Irma home repairs
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity said Monday it has started making assistance available to low-income residents in certain counties whose homes were damaged last year in Hurricane Irma.
The department opened its first “Rebuild Florida” center in Marathon and started accepting online registrations for the program, which is aimed at connecting eligible Floridians with federal disaster-recovery funding to help repair homes.
The program, announced by Gov. Rick Scott and U.S. Housing…
Mansion on Palm Island in Miami Beach sells for $10.5M
A mansion on Palm Island in Miami Beach sold for $10.5 million.
Dr. Martin L. Madorsky and wife Judith F. Richard sold the 12,655-square-foot home at 85 Palm Ave. to Albert Claramonte, the founder of Surfaces Southeast. The price equates to $830 per square foot.
The home last traded for $4.86 million in 2015.
It was built on the 30,000-square-foot lot in 1978. Palm Island is just north of the MacArthur Causeway.
The home has nine bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms, Asian-imported wood and stones and a…
Office in Sawgrass International Corporate Park sells for $27M
The price equated to $284 per square foot.
Chinese restaurant headed for Germantown
A fast-casual Chinese restaurant is set to open in Germantown later this year.
Nashville Post reports that Steamboys aims to open in December, in the LC Germantown mixed-use development at 1226 Second Ave. N.
The business partners behind the restaurant, who asked the Post to go unnamed, plan to open a number of Steamboys in the Nashville area.
EXCLUSIVE: Check out uptown’s newest rooftop restaurant, bar before it opens today
Nuvole Rooftop TwentyTwo will welcome guests to its perch on the 22nd floor starting Monday.
That rooftop restaurant and bar is focused on tasty food, good drinks and creating an atmosphere to relax and gather, says Paul Picarazzi, principal, Vision Ventures.
It sits on the 22nd floor of a new dual-branded hotel atop the EpiCentre. Doors open at 4 p.m. Monday.
“The location lent itself to that, and it just didn’t exist. There was a void to fill,” Picarazzi says.
Nuvole is the latest…
Amazon could open 3,000 cashierless Amazon Go stores by 2021, report says
Amazon.com Inc. is considering plans to open up to 3,000 checkout-free convenience stores by 2021, according to Bloomberg, which cited unnamed sources it said were “familiar with the matter.”
The Seattle-based etailer is weighing plans to open about 10 of the cashierless concept stores by the end of the year, 50 Amazon Gos in major cities next year and up to 3,000 by 2021, Bloomberg reported.
The company already has three Seattle Amazon Go stores and one in Chicago, with plans for locations in…
I Fratelli Pizza expanding to Houston
A 30-year-old Irving-based pizza brand is making its way to the greater Houston area.
i Fratelli Pizza will open its first Houston outpost at 11300 Katy Freeway, according to a press release. The 1,200-square-foot space is part of a strip mall off of Interstate 10 near the Energy Corridor, about 3 miles west of Memorial City Mall.
This i Fratelli location is expected to open in late 2018, but Houstonians can expect more locations in the future. 11300 Katy Freeway “is just the first of many”…
Florence set to become one of the costliest storms in U.S. history
In 2016, when Hurricane Matthew was churning near Haiti, businesses across the Carolinas coast started feeling queasy.