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The Standard, the hip hotel and spa in the renovated Lido Spa on Belle Isle, is planning an ambitious reconstruction that includes rebuilding a wing of rooms and constructing a mechanical on-site parking structure.
“The Standard is looking at an expansion,” Belle Isle Residents Association president Scott Diffenderfer told island residents at a community meeting Wednesday night.
Read more in the Belle Isle Blog.
Many Florida businesses and public institutions provide domestic partner benefits for unmarried employees. Some now also cover the tax on the benefit.
A South Beach club operator was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring with his business partners and “bar girls’’ to rip off male customers at their Russian-style lounges.
Over 250 people attended the inaugural “Out of the Kitchen” Dinner & Silent Auction, held May 2 at the St. Regis Bal Harbour. The event, which featured top area chefs preparing food table-side for guests, netted $75,000 for Pride Outside: Building Better Playgrounds for Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbour K-8 Center.
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