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Sarasota News Leader RETURN OF THE DOWNTOWN CRANES November 8, 2013 Page 54 BULLETS AND 'APPLES' Two downtown commercial icons are underTwo towers will be coming out of the ground going radical rehab. The former Golden Apple soon. The Jewel condominium at Gulfstream Dinner Theater is being gutted. It will be and Main Street received its first building per- rebuilt to the specifications of a new tenant. mit so construction can get started. And the go-to place downtown for handguns And the hotel complex planned for the north- and ammo — the Bullet Hole — is in the same ern corner of Ringling Boulevard and Palm stage of indignity: being gutted before the Avenue has received its initial approval to next tenant moves in. get under way. The building is expected to be Both were long-standing downtown business an Aloft hotel, with European business-class anchors for decades. It is doubtful we will see accommodations. their likes again. % The Jewel condominium complex soon will get under way. Photo by Norman Schimmel