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East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, FL - September 6, 2012 through September 12, 2012 • Year III • Number 113- FREE
Brazil is Busting Out in Boca With a Month of Celebrations
By Dale M. King BOCA RATON – If you’re a Brazilian, if you’d like to be, if you know someone who is, or you just like to party, Boca Raton is the place to be this month. Plan to join the fun on Friday night, Sept. 7 from 6-11 p.m. when Sanborn
Square in downtown Boca becomes the place where “Boca and Brazil meet to celebrate the Brazilian Beat” with a Brazilian Independence Day celebration as part of downtown Boca’s popular monthly Friday Night LIVE! series presented by JM Lexus, with Banco do Brasil as the
evening’s official programming sponsor. The free and open-to-the-public festivities will feature award-winning singer Rose Max and fan-favorite Batuke Samba Funk within its jam-packed schedule that includes a Capoeira and Carnival show and Zumba demonstration, DJ
Fred, displays of art, vibrant fashion and more alongside delicious Brazilian “grab and go” cuisine served up curbside by the Gourmet Truck Expo. Festivities will be held in conjunction with the Consulate General of Brazil in Miami, the Palm Beach See page 3
Partnership Announces Purchase, Redevelopment of Boca Raton Bridge Hotel BOCA RATON – The Boca Raton Bridge Hotel has new owners. AWH Partners, LLC -a joint venture of Winston Harton Holdings, LLC and August Group Ventures,
LLC -- in partnership with The Lane Organization, LLC announced the acquisition and planned reinvention of the waterfront boutique hotel noted for its location on the Intracoastal
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Waterway, panoramic water views from every guest room, and offering the only on-the-water public restaurant dining in Boca Raton. The transaction price was not disclosed. AWH Principal Russ Flicker said the Bridge Hotel will remain one of Boca’s most notable, continuing to operate as a traditional hotel, yet repositioned and transformed to be more relevant and exciting to meet the desires and needs of today’s discerning vacationers as well as social and business guests. The redevelopment plan includes entirely new hospitality and dining concepts, expanded waterfront amenities as well as a new dock flanking the property’s entire Lake Boca perimeter so that diners and hotel guests will soon have the option to arrive by boat. Extensive renovations of
guestrooms, restaurants and public spaces will begin in spring 2013, he said. “We are very excited to add the Bridge Hotel to our collection of repositioned
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luxury hotel properties,” noted Flicker, who along with many of the principals and senior management of the joint venture and partnership has a long his-
tory of successful hotel and residential development in South Florida, and in Boca Raton specifically. “Our past experience in
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