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Unsold on uptown (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: June 21,2011

Darrell Boyette’s cigar shop, Tinderbox, is in Overstreet Mall, a collection of stores inside some of uptown’s high-rise buildings. It’s Tinderbox’s smallest location, and Boyette, the general manager, sees 80 to 100 customers every day at the store, which he says operates during “bankers’ hours” — 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. “We chose this [...]


Still waiting for the acceleration (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: April 29,2011

Bruce Stewart was expecting more. When the NASCAR Hall of Fame opened nearly a year ago, he thought business at his diner, Lola’s, would hit the gas pedal. After all, Lola’s, on South Brevard Street, is across the street from the hall, so if anyone’s business should have benefited from the attraction over the past [...]