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Neighborhood business
By SHARON L. BOND, Neighborhood Times Business Editor Mall will moor shop for importsSEMINOLE -- Seminole Mall is getting a new tenant, Dockside Imports, which will use the old movie theaters inside the mall and a meeting room next door to create a space for its interior furnishings and gifts. They are "shooting for a pre-Thanksgiving opening," said Seth Layton, executive vice president of leasing for RMC Property Group. "The space has been vacant for some time." RMC is the management company for the mall. Layton said the mall still is working to get a tenant for the large space left vacant last year when Waccamaw's HomePlace went out of business. A cheese switch from cake to pizzaST. PETERSBURG -- Le Cheesecake, a longtime tenant at Fourth Street Center, has moved to 4158 Haines Road in the old Pursley Plaza. "I needed to expand," said Janice Woody, who has owned Le Cheesecake for the past 12 years. The cheesecake shop will increase its variety of desserts, do catering and eventually offer soups and sandwiches, she said. Filling the space Le Cheesecake vacated at 3187 Fourth St. N will be West Shore Pizza, according to Adrian Schreiber, landlord and property manager for Fourth Street Center. He said the takeout pizza shop probably would open in about four weeks. West Shore has 23 outlets in the Tampa Bay area, Schreiber said. Notorious motel demolishedST. PETERSBURG -- The Entowne Motel at 3100 Fourth St. N has been demolished. Plans call for a one-story retail complex to be built in its place that will include a convenience store and a takeout pizza restaurant. "It will be one large space," said architect Ronn Ginn, who represents the owner, Triad Investment Corp. "It will be open." Residents living near the Entowne were ready to see it go because police labeled it a frequent place of prostitution and drug activity. But they opposed plans for the new building because they felt it intruded into the residential area. Plans were modified to provide a bigger buffer between the parking lot and the homes. Ginn said construction could begin in October. Soil testing must be done before building can begin. He said the building should be completed in the first quarter of next year.
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