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Local entrepreneur pitches Lakeside Sports Bar and family amenities at BFW building; council asks for more details
Summary
John Martin presented plans to lease Hamlet’s BFW building for a family‑friendly sports bar with indoor games, a greenhouse for school field trips, and long‑term ideas for a fenced artificial beach and boat rentals. Council expressed interest but raised zoning, liability and tenant‑improvement oversight concerns and asked staff to return with more detail.
John Martin, who told the council he has decades of experience running bars and nightclubs, outlined a proposal to lease the BFW building and convert it into a “Lakeside Sports Bar and Grill” that would include indoor game rooms, a small kitchen, a greenhouse for school field trips and, in the longer term, an artificial beach and paddle‑boat rentals.
Martin told the council the interior would be configured to host families — “it’s going to be a place where everybody can come, even with their family and their little kids” — and described plans for cornhole, a par‑three putting green and other low‑cost…
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