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A Miami restauranteur is rebuilding his restaurant and adding 10 apartments in the top of the building that will be available to hospitality industry workers, reports Ari Odzer for NBC 6 South Florida.
According to Odzer, when the building the restaurant was in was set to be demolished, owner Matt Kuscher sprang into action. “The Omni Community Redevelopment Agency played an integral role in getting the plan off the ground. The CRA invested in the project, and in return, Kuscher signed a contract to keep Kush there and to keep the apartments affordable for the next 50 years.”
As Miami food writer Carlos Frias explained, “We’ve heard stories of people who are living in Hialeah and taking a series of buses and bus systems to get to Miami Beach to work in the hotel industry, right, and then back, and we’re talking about hours, two, three hours of someone’s life just evaporating in a commute, something like this eliminates that.”
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