The restaurant will serve barbecue, beer and wine when it opens this fall, according to a press release by Latitude Commercial, the Schererville-based commercial real estate firm that brokered the deal. Renovations are underway.

In other ways too, such as lack of acoustic guidance, the absence of a starter button and the clunky shift lever, the CR-V was playing second fiddle to the Forester, and particularly on hotter days, when the Honda’s manual air conditioning struggled maintaining a cool cabin temperature once the temperature rose above 30 degrees.

It’s slated to close its current location on Jan. 12 and reopen across the street when the old bank renovation is complete.

Once everything was installed, painted, and basically ready to roll we were ready to add the flooring. We had painted the sub-floor (we were going for that Scandi-cool look) but after some deliberation decided to go for a more tied-together vibe and opted for ceramic, hand-painted tile. We selected a full-on patterned ceramic tile motif called Palmera (with the help of the amazing Kali of Fireclay Tile who fully embraced my pattern-loving tendencies) that had tones that the Semihandmade doors would work well with. Getting the tile delivered was a very exciting day! After Jai installed it, and a few more projects (sink installation, hardware etc.) we were in business. 

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Years on, the customers are happy with both the SaMASZ products and the service provided by Timmy and his dealers.

"Amici means friends in Italian," she said. "We try to make sure all the employees we hire are friendly so the diners have a friendly experience. It’s also named in honor of our friends who always encouraged us to open a restaurant."

The popular Italian beef chain Buona Beef is eyeing a location at Broadway and Summit Street in Crown Point, north of the Tomato Bar that’s being developed, said Aaron McDermott, president of Latitude Commercial real estate in Schererville.

Poppy & Pleets Boutique opened at 9735 Fran Lin Parkway in Munster. The store sells trendy women’s clothes, shoes, handbags, jewelry and accessories that are also affordably priced in a chic space with a quote by Coco Chanel: "The best color in the world is the one that looks good on you."

Red Wing Shoes is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from noon until 5 p.m. Sunday.

Outside the old park that weekend in November, I met Brendan, a 20-something who lives in North Carolina but said he spent most of his time with his biker friends around Myrtle Beach. While his buddies pulled wheelies in the parking lot, he told me the city was a hard place for a young person to build a social life.

With its 6,400-pound maximum towing capacity and 1,175-pound max payload limit, the Tacoma TRD Off-Road is plenty truck for most jobs. The handling is what you’d expect; it’s reasonably accurate considering this is a 4,600-pound pickup riding on tall sidewalls designed to prevent rocks from puncturing them versus offering the ultimate in corner-carving prowess.