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TRANSCRIPT: Highwoods Properties, Inc  submitted a request for a Major Certificate of Appearance Approval to the Appearance Review Board for the renovation of the Eola Park Centre office building site 200 E. Robinson Street, at the corner of Robinson and Rosalind. Improvements most visible and useful to locals looking for a new place to eat lunch or hang the construction of shade pavilions, increased plaza space, outdoor recreating space.

Gratitude Coffee Shop is now open in College Park at 1307 Edgewater Dr. Hours will be Monday thru Friday 7am-3pm and Saturdays 8am-2pm. The shop will sell coffee, used books, local art, plants and more.  The business had been running as a coffee truck for years.

Piante Plant Shop will be opening a second location at 141 Lincoln Ave in the space formerly occupied by Breakaway Bike shop in downtown Winter Park. The owners are aiming for an August 9th opening. The new location will house bigger containers, bigger plants, and botanical sculptures. It will be branded as a boutique plant shop and contain space for talks, workshops, and other live events. The original location at 129 W Fairbanks Ave also in Winter Park will sell small potted plants, pots and ready to go gift items. Both shops will soon featurecold brew coffee & sodas in-house from Mercantile Coffee Co.

The first Orlando location of Chronic Tacos is in the works for a Restaurant Row shopping center at 7541 D Sand Lake Rd. No opening date has been announced. The Chronic Tacos menu includes burritos, tostada bowls, tortas, tacos and something called a potato taco which is a corn tortilla filled with mashed potatoes and cheese deep fried and made to order. Ft Myers food reviewer Jean Le Boeuf called the potato taco ”taco magic.” Free tacos for a year will go to the first 20 people who enter Chronic Tacos on opening day if they do in Orlando what they did in Spokane.

Coffee drinkers can’t walk into new exclusive members-only Frenchpressery and order a drink like at normal coffee shops. They must pay for a daily or annual membership. Frenchpressery members receive alerts about the location, days, and hours of operation. They also receive an email with a secret page link to view that day’s unique menu before they RSVP. Requiring RSVPS keeps the number of members allowed in at once low so they receive a one on one coffee experience. The drinks are made in front of them “with the sophistication of a craft cocktail.” The membership does not include the price of the drink.