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Greedy Spoon Daily seafood planned for Daily Downtown
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Marilyn Craig said she wants to open at 311 W. Ashley St. in February.
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Seafood runs in the family for restaurateur Marilyn Craig. Her grandfather was a commercial fisherman in Mayport, her great-grandfather was the first African American to own a seafood distribution company there and her brother is a commercial shrimper. So when Craig decided to leave a job as a financial aid adviser and start a restaurant, it made sense to combine her joy of cooking with her family’s passion for seafood. “Seafood is all I know,” she said. “I can’t get out there and fish the boat. So I’ll just do the other end of it and start a restaurant.” Craig plans to open Greedy Spoon at 311 W. Ashley St. Downtown by early February. She expects to invest about $50,000 to open the restaurant. Menu items include shrimp, crab and fish po’boys, shrimp rolls, shrimp salad, garlic crab trays, fried seafood dinners and a seafood platter. For nonseafood eaters, there will be chicken and fries. Customers also can choose a fresh fish out of the cold storage case and it can be fried on SEE CRAIG, PAGE 2
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Union Terminal Warehouse work can begin
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BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
THE MATHIS REPORT
Photo by Katie Garwood
The city issued a permit for Columbia Ventures to start selective demolition at the Eastside area property. Interior work can begin at the historic Union Terminal Warehouse at 700 E. Union St. in the Eastside area north of TIAA Bank Field. The city issued a permit Jan. 6 for WPC – Winter Park Construction – to perform the $2.7 million selective demolition and concrete restoration of the four-story, 365,434-square-foot building for mixed uses. Atlanta-based Columbia Ventures LLC intends to renovate the structure into apartments through adaptive reuse and a historic tax credit conversion. The demolition is for a project that involves the remodeling of the warehouse built in 1913. Columbia Ventures partner Jakob von Trapp said in an email May 5 his group filed for a partial interior repair and demolition permit “simply to make initial repairs to the interior of the building in preparation for our planned adaptive re-use of the building.” COVID-19 is a determining factor on timing, he said then. “In light of the uncertainty in the capital and real estate mar-
Marilyn Craig plans to open the Greedy Spoon seafood restaurant at 311 W. Ashley St. Downtown in February.
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City issues demolition permit for San Marco building The city issued a permit Jan. 7 for Realco Recycling Co. Inc. to start partial demolition at a 69-year-old building in San Marco slated for conversion into professional offices. Realco Recycling will gut the interior of the two-story main building and tear down a one-story structure that covered a pool and spa in the back of the property at a cost of $50,000, according to the permit. Developer Bill Ware intends to buy the building at 1939 Hendricks Ave. and start on the project for completion by summer. It is at northeast Atlantic Boulevard and Hendricks Avenue.
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