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By TIMES STAFF
Published August 29, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG

Twenty years of healthy food at Lonni's locations

Lonni's Sandwiches will celebrate its 20th anniversary in the Tampa Bay area on Tuesday. Started in Dunedin in 1987, the business, run by former schoolteacher Lonni Whitchurch, spread to Clearwater in '89 and St. Petersburg in '92, then downtown Tampa in '95 and Feather Sound three years ago. With a menu centered on healthy products, the business has won awards for cuisine and Whitchurch has been honored as a business leader. The business' Web site is lonnissandwiches.com.

ST. PETERSBURG

The Kitchen opens with new partners

The Kitchen has finally opened under the guidance of Bowl-a-Granola chef Margaret Guidicessi, a former chef at Mazzaro's. The business, at 409 Central Ave., was to have been a combination of Guidicessi and the chef of ZGrille, Zach Gross, but is now a partnership between Guidicessi and investor Mark Gross, Zach's father. Originally planned to open in March, the restaurant features ready-to-eat foods and gourmet-prepared goods to take home and reheat.

TIERRA VERDE

Restaurant ownerto build residences

The owner of Billy's Stone Crab is building a residential complex on the small island behind the long-standing restaurant. Collany Key will soon become home to 130 condominium units and 10 single-family homes, according to records with Pinellas County. The 18-acre Collany Key will still have plenty of open space after construction, but the land will no longer serve as the de facto swimming platform from which boatless partiers once embarked to reach Shell Key.

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