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Firefly Bay to offer live music with contemporary cuisine
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Two Bono’s Pit Bar-B-Q restaurants in review The chain is rebuilding at Town Center and reviewing Lane Avenue.
They also plan to have live music four to five nights a week, featuring rock and country on weekends and an “eclectic” mix the rest of the week. “We had been discussing going in together as a partnership to do something and we started looking around a lot of different locations in Florida,” Morris said. “We came across Atlantic Beach, we loved the
Two Bono’s Pit Bar-B-Q restaurants are in review for construction. The city is reviewing plans to rebuild the Bono’s at 10065 Skinner Lake Drive near St. Johns Town Center at an estimated $1 million construction cost. The freestanding building is designed at 3,000 square Martino feet on 1.03 acres. Design Cooperative LLC is the architect. The previous store, with 3,900 square feet of interior space, was damaged by fire in March and then demolished. Bono’s President Josh Martino said Oct. 26 that the restaurant will be the first free-standing location the chain has constructed in several years. “That building was built quite some time ago. The restaurant industry looked a lot different and worked a lot differently.”
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John Lombardi and Don Morris are moving to Northeast Florida to open the Firefly Bay at 725 Atlantic Blvd. in Atlantic Beach. Morris said it will be about four months before the restaurant is ready to open.
Childhood friends Don Morris and John Lombardi plan to open in four months in the former North Beach Bistro space in Atlantic Beach.
BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
Childhood friends Don Morris and John Lombardi have been talking about opening a restaurant together for decades. This could be the year as they prepare to open Firefly Bay in the former North Beach Bistro space at 725 Atlantic Blvd. in Atlantic Beach. Morris and Lombardi will serve contemporary American cuisine in an upscale, casual setting.
SuperTarget on Beach to get ‘ambitious’ redesign Target Corp. is preparing to remodel the SuperTarget at southeast Beach and Hodges boulevards with what a spokesperson calls the company’s “most ambitious store redesign to date.” The city is reviewing a permit application for Target to remodel the store at 13740 Beach Blvd. at an estimated cost of almost $4.3 million. A Target spokesperson said the company has increased its investment to “enhance the guest experience with the next generation of store design.” It will feature “modernized design elements” to bring “more technology and digital experiences to our stores to make shopping in store and online safer, easier and more inspiring for our guests.”
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