Juleps New Southern Cuisine is leaving Shockoe Bottom and moving to East Grace Street downtown.

Owner Amy Ayers said Thursday night before the restaurants 11th anniversary celebration that the restaurant will move to the former Shields Shoes store at 420 E. Grace St.

She hopes to finish construction on the building by the end of 2014 and open Juleps in its new location by March 1. The restaurant will remain open at its current location until the move.

Were going from one historic building to another, Ayers said.

Ayers bought the three-story Shields building with Tom Dickey and Chris Johnson, principals of The Monument Companies. The first floor will hold the 128-seat restaurant, up from 74 seats in the current location. Eight apartments will be built on the second and third floors.

Ayers will remain sole owner of Juleps, which will rent the space from the three-person partnership. The Monument Companies will handle construction.

The partnership 420 E Grace Richmond LLC bought the property for $630,000, according to the commercial real estate firm CBRE|Richmond, whose agents represented the seller and the buyer.

Juleps will be next door to Pasture, which has served Southern-focused food since chef-owner Jason Alley and co-owners Michele Jones and Ry Marchant opened the restaurant in 2011.

Like Juleps new digs, a storefront that once catered to downtown shoppers houses Pasture. The restaurant is the former home of the high-end womens clothier Montaldos.

When she was fresh out of college, Ayers worked at Downtown Presents, which had been Richmonds urban festival promoter. One of her tasks was to hang event posters in the windows of downtown retailers.

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Construction on Highway 36, which resumed this spring, is affectin area businesses differently. Some are seeing declines in sales, but others are not. (Gazette staff photo by Jonathan Young)

Businesses along state Highway 36 between Washington/Norelle Avenue and Highway. 95 offer mixed reports on the effects of the construction. While some businesses simply note minor inconveniences to customers, others recognize a noticeable decrease in sales.

Richard Rose of Rose Floral and Greenhouse sees no significant negative effects from the construction.

Its been a lot of inconvenience but nothing really big, Rose said.

Since the road is still open, customers figuring out how to navigate to the business is the main challenge. It can look confusing, he added.

A couple businesses, such as Phils Tara Hideaway and Acapulco Restaurante Mexicano, herald local support as key during this time. They say loyal customers have kept them from feeling a significant negative impact.

Nik Barbatsis, manager at Phils Tara Hideaway, said. I think the community is doing a great job of supporting the businesses along the highway, Barbatsis said.

Getting to the restaurant is a little tricky but still possible.

People are pretty clever, Barbatsis said.

Harrel Perez of Acapulco Restaurante Mexicano noticed pros and cons from the construction. He appreciated the construction workers who stop in for meals, and the continued support of the Stillwater community.

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Waterloo, Ontario (PRWEB) June 11, 2014

Noise Pollution is a growing global urban problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) says it seriously harms human health. An interesting statistic from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association estimates that 30 million Americans are exposed to dangerous noise levels on a regular basis.

Noise pollution can lead to hearing loss, sleep disturbances, and fatigue headaches. Inside or outside communities are working to make changes. An interesting case study has recently happened in the restaurant industry.

Reducing Noise Pollution can be simple in small spaces. A good example is Taco Farm, an innovative restaurant in Waterloo, Ontario. It opened less than a year ago. It had delicious food, excellent service and a cool location, but customers and staff were struggling with the noise levels.

We take feedback from our customers seriously, says Ryan Good, Taco Farm co-owner. Taco Farm has a great atmosphere, but the sound was reverberating off the high flat ceiling making it very difficult to hear. Our staff were complaining about headaches and we knew we had to do something.

Ryan Good called Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, industry experts in noise reduction, Tim Wiens and Joey Jraige. Sound softening techniques are mostly used in large theatre spaces, but Wiens says more businesses and restaurants are looking to the engineers. We are interested in designing smarter spaces, and sound is a big part of that.

The Conestoga-Rovers & Associates team used a sound technique that is traditionally used in theatre spaces to decrease the sound in crowded areas.

The acoustic absorbing panels reduced the reverberation time by 30%. Reverberation makes hearing incredibly difficult because an overlapping of speech sounds occurs. That significantly reduces speech intelligibility.

The panels blend in with the hip dcor at Taco Farm, and most people dont even notice them. What they will notice is that they dont have to shout to speak to the person next to them. We call it speech privacy, explains Tim Wiens.

The effect has been dramatic. Our staff and customers noticed immediately. Anything we can do to make someones dining experience better is great, says Ryan Good.

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Juleps New Southern Cuisine is leaving Shockoe Bottom and moving to East Grace Street downtown.

Owner Amy Ayers said Thursday night before the restaurants 11th anniversary celebration that the restaurant will move to the former Shields Shoes store at 420 E. Grace St.

She hopes to finish construction on the building by the end of 2014 and open Juleps in its new location by March 1. The restaurant will remain open at its current location until the move.

Were going from one historic building to another, Ayers said.

Ayers bought the three-story Shields building with Tom Dickey and Chris Johnson, principals of The Monument Companies. The first floor will hold the 128-seat restaurant, up from 74 seats in the current location. Eight apartments will be built on the second and third floors.

Ayers will remain sole owner of Juleps, which will rent the space from the three-person partnership. The Monument Companies will handle construction.

The partnership 420 E Grace Richmond LLC bought the property for $630,000, according to the commercial real estate firm CBRE|Richmond, whose agents represented the seller and the buyer.

Juleps will be next door to Pasture, which has served Southern-focused food since chef-owner Jason Alley and co-owners Michele Jones and Ry Marchant opened the restaurant in 2011.

Like Juleps new digs, a storefront that once catered to downtown shoppers houses Pasture. The restaurant is the former home of the high-end womens clothier Montaldos.

When she was fresh out of college, Ayers worked at Downtown Presents, which had been Richmonds urban festival promoter. One of her tasks was to hang event posters in the windows of downtown retailers.

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TAHOE CITY, Calif. Tahoe City is set to take the plunge with a new lake front restaurant addition.

Located in a new, two-story building at the Grove Street Pier in Tahoe City, Moes Original Bar B Que is scheduled to open by mid-June.

Josh Wallick, Eric Pilcher and Luke Dannals partnered after finding the perfect location for what they call a soul food revival. The boys like to call it a friendchise its mostly friends and family. Moes has restaurants in Alabama, Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee and Maine.

Working practically 24/7 to get the building restaurant-ready, these hands-on guys built their own tables for a totally Tahoe ambiance. All three have extensive restaurant and food and beverage experience: Eric and Josh worked side-by-side at Moes in Vail, Colo. and Luke worked as a beverage captain at the Marriott in Vail, a four diamond resort.

Their philosophy is to provide an affordable meal in a relaxed atmosphere like being at a friends for dinner.

Moes is steeped in the tradition of sizzlin Southern soul food, such as smoked meats with Moes secret rub and slow smoke process.

Fried, sustainably harvested, freshwater catfish are a specialty, along with a fried gulf shrimp Moe-boy and blackened seasonal fish.

Alabama barbecued chicken and turkey, chicken wings and tofu are served with a signature white barbecue sauce. When winter rolls around, warm up with crab or shrimp bisque, sweet potato soup and a variety of chili.

Banana pudding, Mississippi mud pie and scotcheroos (Rice Crispie treats with caramel and chocolate coating) will top things off.

Craft beers and a hand-selected wine list should keep the bar lively and diners satisfied.

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Livonia Ask Richard Glomb about the effects the Interstate 96 construction has had on his bowling alley, and he will give you an earful.

Glomb, general manager of Cloverlanes Bowl east of Middle Belt on the Schoolcraft Road service drive in Livonia, said business has never been more bleak. Open bowling revenue is down 40 percent. The days the alley is open have been cut from seven to four. And large parties are declining to book gatherings until the project is completed.

Although the freeway rebuild project seems to be on schedule for completion in the fall, owners and managers of businesses say they have seen a dip in foot traffic, but are adjusting.

My league fees are one-half of what it was. My open bowling is 20 percent down. Its devastating, said Glomb, who has run Cloverlanes for 11 years. Im having to lay off more than three quarters of my staff.

Glomb said his situation is much worse than when the recession hit in 2008, estimating his business has lost $20,000 alone in advance bookings for large parties. Because were reacting to what we are seeing right now, were going to squeak through, he said.

The construction, which began on April 5 after about two weeks of delays because of inclement weather, has had some impact on Snookers Pool and Pub, off the service drive west of Inkster Road, manager Jeremy Robinson said.

Its a hit or miss, Robinson said of business. But it definitely has affected us. I think a lot of our clientele that we have is because we are located right off the freeway. Now they cant do that. Some of the people I used to see I dont see as much now.

Robinson said the project and the increased traffic on the service drives, which remain open on both sides during construction, has been a deterrent. He was hoping more construction workers would patronize the pub, but hes only seen a few come in.

Enri Dauti, the owner of Prime Grill restaurant at the corner of Merriman and the Schoolcraft service drive, said the uptick of construction workers has helped replenish some of the reduced business.

Weve lost some customers and we have gained from some of the construction workers, he said. Some customers who once stopped by three or four times a week now stop only once.

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An Osceola County restaurant's grand opening will be delayed because of a two-alarm fire Sunday morning.

The fire ignited shortly before 11 a.m. at the Tres Amigos restaurant, at 2250 East U.S. Highway 192, near Shady Lane.

The restaurant was under construction when the fire broke out.

Osceola County firefighters found flames and smoke pouring from the building when they arrived.

Firefighters worked about an hour to extinguish the fire, which caused extensive damage.

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The other businesses in the strip mall where Tres Amigos is located are expected to open Monday after the structures and utilities are inspected to ensure that they were not damaged.

No one was injured in the blaze, but the cause of the fire has not been determined.

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Now under construction, the Ivy Hotel will include a modern American restaurant named Magdalena. (Rendering courtesy Ziger/Snead / December 7, 2012)

The Ivy Hotel, the boutique urban resort under development in Mid-Town Belvedere, will have a modern American restaurant named Magdalena.

The Ivy will occupy the massive Gilded Age brownstone at Calvert and Biddle streets that was built as a private residence and was most recently known as the Inn at Government House.

Magdalena will be the public face of the 18-unit hotel, which otherwise will operate in the manner of a resort, with lounge areas and spa services available for guests only.

The restaurants chef will be Mark Levy, who formerly worked at The Point, an Adirondacks resort created by Garrett Hotel Consultants, the Charlotte, Vt.-based firm that has been hired to design The Ivy.

The hotels owners include Martin Azola and Tony Azola, the father-and-son principals in Azola, a Baltimore-based construction firm specializing in adaptive reuse, and the philanthropists Sylvia and Eddie C. Brown.

The Ivy is scheduled to open in early 2015, according to a spokeswoman for the hotel.

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MAPLEWOOD, N.J., May 30 (UPI) --A construction worker was killed Friday when masonry came down as he and two others excavated a new stairwell in a restaurant in Maplewood, N.J.

Deputy Fire Chief Joseph Callaghan said the dead man, identified as Guo Tai Chen, 51, of New York City, appeared to have died quickly. Another worker was seriously injured.

"He was trapped under a good amount of rubble," Callaghan said. "He was D.O.A."

The building, which dates from about 1930, houses the Coda Kitchen & Bar, a popular eatery in downtown Maplewood, a leafy suburb outside Newark. Owner Saul Fischer said he wanted to install an inside stair to the basement so his employees would not have to go outside.

Mayor Vic De Luca and other officials said the work had the required permits and the site was inspected as recently as Wednesday.

"It's just an accident. It gave way, and he was there," DeLuca said. "I'm sure he went to work today thinking he was going to go home again."

Callaghan said Maplewood has a lot of "old masonry." In 1999, a woman was killed when a building overhang fell on her.

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One construction worker is dead and another seriously injured after an internal building collapse at a restaurant in Maplewood, N.J.

6:20 p.m. EDT, May 30, 2014

Falling rubble killed one construction worker and another was seriously injured when the interior of a restaurant collapsed in Maplewood, New Jersey, on Friday, a fire department official said.

The two men were installing a staircase in the basement at Coda Kitchen and Bar when part of the ceiling collapsed on top of them, said Maplewood Fire Chief Michael Dingelstedt.

Firefighters rescued the injured worker, who was taken to a hospital with serious injuries but was expected to survive, Dingelstedt said. The other worker, identified as Guo Tai Chen, died from his injuries at the scene, he said.

A third construction worker and a restaurant manager escaped from the one-story building unscathed.

The restaurant is on a quaint strip of cafes and nail salons in downtown Maplewood, a middle-class suburb less than 20 miles from New York City.

John Chung, the owner of Bagel Chateau, which is opposite the restaurant, said construction had been going on in the basement for about two weeks.

Firefighters evacuated several nearby businesses while they checked other buildings for structural damage, local business owners said.

The restaurant owner could not immediately be contacted.

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