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Bobby Miller Center Addition

Jim Davis, program manager with Harrison Construction, talks to Tuscaloosa County Commissioner Bobby Miller and Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority executive director Gary Minor at the addition to the Bobby Miller Center in Tuscaloosa Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. The addition will include an indoor playground, rock climbing wall and two racquetball courts. Construction is expected to be completed by the spring of 2015.

The Bobby Miller Activity Center in Taylorville will soon feature everything from a rock-climbing wall to racquetball courts to a multistory indoor playground.

On Wednesday the Tuscaloosa County Commission unanimously approved $597,000 out of its reserves to furnish an addition to the activity center. The 11,000-square-foot addition, which is under construction and set to open in March, will expand the activity center to around 50,000 square feet, making it the second largest in the county, said Gary Minor, executive director of the Tuscaloosa Park and Recreation Authority.

The money will also be used to buy some updated workout equipment for the center and allow free aerobics classes for members. A party room will be located near an expansive indoor playground area, and the two racquetball courts will be the only public courts available in Tuscaloosa County, Minor said.

The improvements were chosen based on community input, Minor said.

If the building included only a gym, the furnishing cost would have been around $300,000 instead of close to $600,000, but Minor said he expects the new features to attract more users and more money.

Commissioner Bobby Miller, for whom the center is named, agreed.

The commission worked with PARA real well to make this happen, Miller said. I'm tickled to death.

The new amenities will mean a higher cost for users, Minor said. Although PARA has no exact figures on rate increases, rates will likely increase similar to what users pay for the Faucett Brothers Activity Center in Northport.

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$600K approved for improvements at Bobby Miller Activity Center in Taylorville

River Oaks is a well-known wonderland for local light peepers. Driving in from all over the city, Houstonians clog the tony neighborhood's streets during the holidays to take in glittering mansions lavished in festive finery, including impressively wrapped oak trees and Santa sleigh displays.

What the general public usually doesn't see, however, is that the seasonal splendor continues indoors, from glorious mantels to tasteful tablescapes - especially if Regina Gust is involved.

In this Sunday's Escapes section, the Houston-based seasonal and event designer takes us inside one of the River Oaks mansions where her thoughtful decorative skill is on display.

She doesn't just work in River Oaks, either. Gust dresses up about 50 homes around town every holiday season, in addition to commercial spaces; the 20-foot tree glowing in the lobby of the Lyric Centre downtown is her handiwork.

Take a spin through our slideshow to see some of Gust's luxe projects this year. You may even find something to inspire you to create your own winter wonderland in 2015.

For more information about Regina Gust, go to http://www.reginagust.com.

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Luxe holiday dcor by Houston's go-to seasonal designer

Red O, a Rick Bayless-inspired restaurant that has a location in Newport Beach's Fashion Island center, will replace Donovan's in UTC area.

Red O, an upscale restaurant brand that showcases celebrity chef Rick Bayless authentic Mexican cuisine, is coming to San Diego where it will take the place of Donovans Prime Steakhouse.

The Irvine Co., landlord for the 825,000-square-foot Plaza office complex in the UTC area where the restaurant will be located, announced Monday its plans for the space that Donovans will vacate Jan. 3 before relocating to its new home on Prospect Street in La Jolla.

Red O and the Irvine Co., which will raze the standalone Donovans restaurant structure, expect to invest $7 million in creating the new 8,300-square-foot restaurant that will also include a 2,000-square-foot patio. The Irvine Co. will start construction in early 2015, with an opening expected in mid-2016 across from Westfield UTC.

The move marks the first San Diego location for Red O, which already operates in Los Angeles and Fashion Island in Newport Beach and will be opening in Santa Monica as well. Bayless cuisine, which is inspired by the food typically found in various regions of Mexico, most notably the Yucatan, Oaxaca and Baja California, is the centerpiece of Red Os menu.

Bayless, while not technically a co-owner or partner in the Red O restaurants, has complete control over the menu, and his team trains all the chefs at his well-known Chicago restaurants, Topolobampo and Frontera Grill. Everything on the menu must be approved and tasted by Bayless personally, said Red O Chief Operating Officer Jason Miranda.

Were taking a steak and seafood restaurant and adding a Mexican twist so people would be wrong to categorize us as a typical Mexican restaurant, Miranda explained. Therefore its upscale dining with a ticket average of $70 plus per person, the same price point as Donovans.

Obviously it caters to upscale neighborhoods, and La Jolla being an upscale neighborhood, it can support these type of cuisines because of the affluence in the area. We thought it could be a good fit.

The move to San Diego is part of an expansion plan to bring the Red O concept to other locations across the country, with one to two openings planned a year, Miranda said.

Red O in Newport Beach is one of the top performing restaurants among Fashion Islands nearly 50 dining venues, said Irvine Co. spokesman Michael Lyster. Bayless is a James Beard award winner and host of the PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time.

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Folks Folly has finished rebranding and renovating the restaurants adjacent butcher shop that opened in 1989, a spate of activity that also included renaming the shop in honor of restaurant founder Humphrey Folk.

The butcher shop adjacent to Folks Folly that opened in 1989 has been rebranded and renamed in honor of restaurant founder Humphrey Folk.

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The shop, at 551 S. Mendenhall Road, is now Humphreys Prime Cut Shoppe. It also has launched an online store, http://www.HumphreysMemphis.com, and rolled out a new brand identity, fresh marketing materials and redesigned packaging as part of the changes.

The namesake of the shop and of Folks Folly Prime Steak House was a businessman involved in construction and real estate development whose work took him around the country and who, perhaps unsurprisingly, developed a deep appreciation of good food and fine wine.

Lauren McHugh, Folks Folly president and managing partner, said that Folk would often give gift packages of prime steaks to business associates as well as to friends. He was doing that out of the back door at Folks Folly as early as 1977, she said.

Now, were giving him the iconic front door he had always envisioned, she said.

The newly rebranded shop sells fresh, hand-cut meats and other gourmet products, and Humphreys items can be delivered in Memphis or shipped overnight anywhere in the continental U.S. Its a way, Humphreys manager Terry Martin said, that customers can take the restaurant experience with them choosing a hand-cut prime steak and other fixings for a customers home, in other words, is the next best thing to enjoying them in the Folks Folly dining room.

Hours of the newly renovated butcher shop are Mondays through Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and its closed on Sundays.

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Folks Folly Rebrands, Renames Butcher Shop

The newly reborn, $100 million Edgewater Hotel on the shores of Lake Mendota has been under construction for more than two years.

It still is.

True, the Statehouse, Edgewaters fine dining flagship restaurant, opened its doors to diners in late September. But on many levels, its just not ready for prime time.

Some of the problems are physical. During lunch last week, diners raised their voices to be heard over the installation of doors somewhere in the kitchen. A utility cart bearing the name of Edgewaters developer, Findorff, loitered next to a ladder in the bar area.

As one approaches the restaurant through the lobby, the design is sleek and modern, paying photographic homage to Madison icons like Ben Sidran, Harry Steenbock, Oscar Meyer and Mike Leckrone.

But during the giddy debut of Edgewaters ice skating rink, one of the slick interactive digital lobby displays had stopped, frozen on an error screen.

Service, too, felt under-rehearsed. During dinner more than two months after the restaurant had opened, everything was late.

One cocktail took an hour and fifteen minutes to arrive, by then watery and weak. Another didnt arrive at all as we learned later, the bar didnt have the ingredients.The whole endeavor took two and a half hours, including the hour we sat, waiting to place an entre order.

To their credit, servers were friendly, quick to suggest replacements for items no longer on offer (duck fat tater tots), and compensated for slowness with free wine.

But they couldnt answer basic questions.What comes on the Statehouse burger, for example? (Its not mayonnaise; its chili aioli.) One fumbled, apologetically, after losing our order.

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