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REAL HISTORY: Sarasota s first two luxury hotels Part I: Mira Mar
Andrew McAnsh s Mira Mar Apartments, hotel and casino offered the essential ingredient for Sarasota to be a go-to city.
Jeff LaHurd
This is the first of a 2-part series
No matter how beautiful a Florida community happened to be, visitors would do no more than pass thru without proper lodging to prompt them to stay. In Sarasota, which offered all the essential ingredients to be a go-to city, the lack of first-class accommodations was a glaring deficit.
Enter Andrew McAnsh, a Scot by way of Chicago who came for a visit in the early 1920s, just before that eras real estate boom was about to skyrocket.
Winnipeg Free Press Posted:
Good morning.
Be careful driving this morning. Light rain fell on the city Wednesday night and early today, and the temperature has dipped below the freezing mark. Meanwhile, the provincial government announced this morning it has expedited the proclamation of new legislation allowing stores to stay open later on Sundays and holidays. The new rules take effect this weekend. Adam Treusch, assignment editor
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A man holds a sign bearing images of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor outside a courtroom in Vancouver in January. (DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES)
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