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Restaurant/bar lease approved
By Sheldon S. Shafer
sshafer@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
A restaurant featuring Caribbean, Creole and Cajun food and offering a wide selection of flavored daiquiris is scheduled to open around Nov. 1 at 109 S. Fourth St. on the ground floor of the state-owned Cowger Garage.
The Kentucky State Fair Board at a meeting Thursday approved a lease for the garage space for the Island Daiquiri Shop and its Louisville operators, brothers Joey and James Boggan and their partner, Rick Walters.
The storefront between Main and Market streets was most recently occupied by an outlet of Curves, a women’s workout center, said fair board spokeswoman Amanda Storment.
The lease calls for the daiquiri restaurant to rent 1,800 square feet of space.
Joey Boggan said the brothers are natives of Biloxi, Miss., while Walters is from Louisville. He said the restaurant will seat about 90 customers and be open for lunch and dinner, probably seven days a week.
The initial term of the lease is five years, with extension provisions. The restaurant is required to pay the state $36,000 a year in rent. It is permitted to put up a canopy over Fourth Street with the business’s name.
The restaurant cannot sublet the space without the fair board’s approval.
Reporter Sheldon S. Shafer can be reached at (502) 582-7089.