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By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published May 18, 2002
Home and patio show scheduled
The annual Tampa/St. Petersburg Home & Patio show returns Friday through May 27 to the Tampa Convention Center, 333 S Franklin St., Tampa. More than 700 vendors will show home and garden products and services.
A Hurricane Alley display will show items to make homes more stormworthy as the season approaches. A Florida Outdoor Living area will show spas, pools, decking, water features, landscaping, outdoor lighting, and paving systems. An Energy Pavilion presented by TECO will highlight air-conditioning and energy-conservation products and programs.
Tickets are $6.50 for adults, free for children 12 and younger with adult, half-price Friday only; discount tickets for May 25-27 in the Weekend section of Thursday's paper. Hours: noon to 8 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. May 25, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. May 26 and 27.
Elvis-themed resort planned
A developer plans to build an Elvis Presley-themed resort community just down the road from Graceland in Memphis, on farmland that was once owned by the King.
The complex, on 157 acres in Walls, Miss., will be called the Elvis Presley Ranch, with 650 condos, a convention center, two hotels, a museum, two golf courses and three wedding chapels.
Elvis' estate is not pleased, Bloomberg News reports.
"If Walt Disney had owned a farm somewhere, could someone come in and build their own Walt Disney World? Obviously, no," Elvis Presley Enterprises spokesman Todd Morgan said.
But EPR Enterprises, the would-be developer, says that buying the ranch, which Presley owned from 1967 to 1974, entitles it to the use of Elvis' name.
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