Stet News💰 Related Ross is seeking $1.3 million from West Palm Beach to help transform the historic Hibiscus House property near CityPlace into a $13 million destination restaurant. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
🏖️ Benny’s on the Beach is asking Lake Worth Beach for a $50,000 rent waiver while it closes its Oceanwalk restaurant in October for renovation. (ByJoeCapozzi.com)
🚧 Vanderbilt University, which is planning a West Palm Beach and New York City campus, is launching a 40-acre campus expansion in Midtown Nashville, Tenn. (The Vanderbilt Hustler)
🎭 The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival is back in Jupiter this weekend with “A Winter’s Tale.” (Palm Beach ArtsPaper)
🎥 CMX Cinemas, owners of movie theaters in Palm Beach Gardens and Wellington, filed June 30 for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
📖 Former Palm Beach Post columnist Leslie Streeter will talk about her new novel, “Family and Other Calamities,” with WLRN’s Wilkine Brutus at 6:30pm Wednesday. The conversation at the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach is free, no registration required. (Facebook)
Cultural critic Hap Erstein, one of Palm Beach County’s most prolific writers, died Saturday. He collapsed last week at a theater where he had gone to do a movie review. He was 74. (Florida Theater on Stage)
🎙️ This week’s episode of the “Top of Mind Florida” podcast is a conversation with state Rep. Toby Overdorf, R-Stuart, who just announced he is running for Florida Senate in 2028. He discusses property tax reform and his role in crafting a potential constitutional amendment. Listen here.
