Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • Page 31

Tallahassee July 24, 19845D INE Class Starts August 13th Ohio company unveils hotel plans By Ann Judds Democrat staff writer OUR MOST COMPREHENSIVE HOME BUILDING COURSE EVER Join us between August 13th 23rd for Southeastern's 1984 Summer Intensive, where program participants will actually construct a 1,200 square-foot energy efficient, code-enforced, wood frame house on a beautiful homesite in Kilearn Lakes. This two-week, 45-hour intensive program combines "hands-on" instruction with the lecture-style approach of Southeastern's popular "How To Be The Contractor For Your Own Home" program. ENROLLMENT LIMITED Q-70 QHH SO REGISTER EARLY I I at all," said Burns. Lagniappe "French Cajun for a little something extra" is directed toward the executive or conventioneer who doesn't want the convention-hotel atmosphere, she said. With room rates running from $79 to $99, it will offer rooms with kitchenettes and one-bedroom suites, plus limousine service, a restaurant and 24-hour room service, she said, and "service without servitude." Burns said that in addition to hotels, Bardon Investment is involved in oil and gas production in Ohio and horse breeding and racing in Florida.

The company plans to have 30 inns operating by the end of 1986, she said, but only the ones in Tallahassee and Raleigh, N.C., will be owned by limited partnerships involving the Burnses. The remainder will be owned by Memphis Advisory Group, a motel-hotel-management company, through Lagniappe Inns she said. Tallahassee is attractive because it fits the second- or third-tier city profile sought by the company and because of the Florida State Conference Center, which would generate guests. Burns described the center as one of the finest facilities she'd seen. "I'm really that impressed with it," she said.

Lawton M. "Bud" Chiles III used industrial-development revenue bonds to renovate what is now Governors Inn, a small $2-miIlion luxury hotel on the Adams Street Commons. The $35-million Hershey Tallahassee Hotel proposed for construction behind City Hall has $10 million in industrial-development revenue bonds in its financing plan. The temporary scuttling of the Hershey project earlier this month is one reason for the uncertainty over the Lagniappe's development timetable, Burns said. But with a majority of the City Commission now backing the Hershey proposal and apparently willing to consider the approval of industrial-development revenue bonds for other projects, the development company may go ahead and request the bonds, she said.

"We were really excited about the Hershey Corp. coming in," Burns said, explaining her belief that the proposed 300-room hotel would stimulate tourist and convention trade. Burns also said that she would not consider the Hershey a competitor for the upscale patrons it hopes to attract and that Governors Inn is not similar to their project. "It's really not like anything in Tallahassee An Ohio development company has disclosed plans to build a $5-million, 70-room inn at Gaines Street and Wahnish Way as part of a chain of 30 small, mostly Southern, luxury hotels. Barbara Burns of Bardon Investment Corp.

of Worthington, Ohio, said she and her husband, Donald, were ironing out details to construct Lagniappe Inn across from the Florida State Conference Center. They have lined up the land and the zoning and are awaiting a decision on how to finance the hotel, according to Burns. "As far as optimistic, I'm 100-percent optimistic," she said Monday. "The time frame is the question." Burns said that although it was not crucial to the project, the company would like city approval for $3.2 million in industrial-development revenue bonds. Developers often seek such bonds as a source of money because they carry interest rates sign-ficantly lower than would be available from pri-' vate sources.

Presented by Southeastern Home Building Services CLASSIFIED ACTION ADS, 599-2210 John Deere Compact Utility Diesel Tractors Pantry Pride closing Tallahassee grocery stores By Ingrid Roebuck Democrat staff writer reopen at a later date, she said. Of the 26 that closed in South Florida, only one located in Sunrise has reopened, Napier said. Napier declined to say how many employees would be left without jobs by the Tallahassee closings and referred questions to the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. She also declined comment on if any employees would be transferred to other Pantry Pride stores. No information was available from the union's offices in Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale.

The local president in Fort Lauderdale and his assistant are out of town until Thursday, and phone calls to the Jacksonville office were unanswered Monday evening. Pantry Pride, which is based in Fort Lauderdale, has 120 stores in Florida, Georgia and was based on the fact that these stores "were old, tired and not making the money they needed to make," she said. "This is something that supermarket chains do from time to time. These stores are older and smaller and are no longer profitable. We're (Pantry Pride) trying to be a little bit stronger," she said.

However, Napier said the closings were not a sign that Pantry Pride was losing money. "It's a healthy move for us." Three other Pantry Pride stores located in Pensacola, Gainesville and Casselberry, near Orlando, will also be closing Saturday for the same reasons. Napier said 26 Pantry Pride stores in South Florida were closed last fall for similar reasons. It is uncertain if any of the stores would Pantry Pride shoppers will soon be shopping for another grocery store. By Aug.

18, all Pantry Pride stores in Tallahassee will be out of business. The stores, located on North Monroe Street, Thomasville Road and West Tennessee Street, are being shut down because they are no longer profitable, according to Judy Napier, Pantry Pride's director of information services. The stores at 3521 Thomasville Road and 1700 N. Monroe St. will be closed at 5 p.m.

Saturday, while the store at 1964 W. Tennessee St. will close Aug. 18. Napier said that closing the stores had been under consideration for some time.

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Democrat staff and wire reports Action line Ingrid Roebuck WHITEHILL EQUIPMENT COMPANY state Consumer Complaint Analyst Dot Carroll said just anyone cannot request a credit check on you. "A person can't do it indiscreetly because the only way to buy that service (a credit check) is to be in business," Carroll said. Businesses also need not have your permission in order to get one. However, Carroll said, most businesses don't do credit checks without a good reason because a fee is charged to the company each time a credit check is done. Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape and provides a voice for the public.

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to r.wi deposit back if the deal doesn't go through? Can anyone run a credit check on you and do they have to have your permission? ML. A. According to state Consumer Complaint Analyst Alex Cortinas, the law states that for any deposit on a vehicle, the consumer should get a receipt that states the amount of the deposit, if the deposit is refundable and if so, under what conditions. As for the credit checks, Q. On April 27, 1979, I bought 44 yards of carpet from The Carpet Shop Inc.

on Capital Circle, and the carpet was installed by Carpet Shop employees some months later. The carpet has deteriorated far beyond what I expected. After many months of trying to get help from the company, I talked with the manager, Lynn Wollschlager, but I still have carpet that is falling apart. I can't afford to buy new carpet every five years. A.

Wollschlager said that while this situation was "not an everyday occurrence," he would not replace your carpet free. Wollschlager said that carpet manufacturers usually don't offer more than a two-year warranty as in this case. The manufacturer of your carpet did not feel any responsibility to you, he said. However, Wollschlager said he had made you two offers for credit on a purchase of new carpet but you refused. Q.

I recently came very close to buying a car. I gave the salesman a $50 deposit, which he said would be returned to me. The salesman said a credit check had to be run before the sale agreement could be completed. I had some trouble getting the deposit back but I finally got it. I wonder what the law is on such deposits and credit checks.

Shouldn't you automatically get the isr Spectacular Summer Sale I ft 721 usai Cabinet to discuss crab-season change A controversial rule that would change the crabbing season in two North Florida counties is scheduled to be heard today before the Cabinet. The rule would change the crabbing season in Taylor and Dixie Counties to Sept. 1 to Feb. 28. The i statewide crabbing season is currently Oct.

1 to May 15. The rule, proposed by the Marine Fisheries Commission, is a one-year experiment to eliminate age-old conflicts between the shrimping and stone-crabbing industries, said Lee Schlesinger, an administrative assistant with the commission. Schlesinger said the gear used by shrimp fishermen disrupts the traps set by crabbers. Now, the crabbing season conflicts with the peak period in the shrimping industry March, April and May. "This (proposed change) would give the shrimpers a little time to get their business done and keep out of the crabbers' hair," Schlesinger said.

But the proposed rule would do more than change the crabbing months. During the first six weeks of the trial season, crabbers would be allowed to unload and sell their catches only in Taylor and Dixie counties. That would prevent crabbers in other counties from getting a six-week jump on the season, Schlesmg- CI Skid But dealers who buy from crabbers in Taylor and Dixie counties say the rule would hurt their busi- T16SS6S The Wakulla County Commission met in an emergency session Monday to oppose the proposed rule, and a citizens group also has challenged it. Still, it's on the Cabinet agenda. The meeting starts at 9 a.m.

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