![]() ![]() We laid out everything that we have and then we asked them 'Is there anything that we're missing?' " "That's unprecedented in my experience here at the police department," Dugan said. They also used a helicopter to scour the routes between Ybor City and Foster's home in Brandon, but have found no sign of her.Įarly Thursday, investigators met with Foster's parents, Peggy and Craig Beman, along with a group of her friends, to detail their findings so far. They have found nothing suspicious.ĭetectives also reviewed surveillance footage from more than 50 cameras in Ybor City that turned up the images of her walking and the shot of her car heading east. Since then, investigators have talked to many of Foster's friends and acquaintances, including her estranged husband and the man she exchanged numbers with at the bar. "People are paying attention.Foster did not show up for work the next day. Though the one-story carousel in Lakeland Square has been operating for only eight weeks, early indications are that it is a success, said general manager Dean Grabill. He declined to say how much his company paid for the double-decker carousel. The charge will be $1.25 per ride, except for adults accompanying toddlers, Ramage said. A stairway will connect the two platforms. They feature hand-painted panels depicting Venetian scenery, oak floors and rocking horses with real horse hair.Īnd while the carousel caters to children, it also has benches and seats shaped as gondolas and tea cups for adults. Only instead of being made of wood, they are mostly fiberglass. The carousel was manufactured in a town near Venice, Italy, by a company that specializes in building old-fashioned carousels, similar to those built in Germany in the 1890s. "I just think it's a kind of growing family area, the whole area from Clearwater on up," said Dave Ramage, owner of Cypress Group. Only a few benches will have to be removed from Center Court. The company, which operates a one-story carousel at Lakeland Square Mall, believes it can do a better business in Pasco. The carousel planned for Gulf View Square is currently operating out of a mall near New Orleans.Ĭypress Group, which owns and operates carousels nationwide, plans to disassemble the carousel and move it to Gulf View Square sometime in the next two weeks. Sikora said he got the idea to open a carousel in the mall from reading trade journals. He said the promised renovations will proceed but declined to specify when. ![]() But Sikora says business has picked up at the 813,000-square-foot mall, which currently has 110 stores and is 93 percent leased. In response to complaints from shoppers and tenants, DeBartolo promised over a year ago to spend $5- to $10-million on renovations that would include building a food court, a full-service restaurant and new flooring.īut that renovation has yet to happen, and in the last year stores including the Gap, Kay Jewelers, Casual Corner and Chess King have left. The carousel is part of the mall's overall plan to revamp its image and attract more traffic, Sikora said. "We're hoping that the carousel will help drive in some of the younger shoppers." has turned out to be successful at quite a few of our other malls," Sikora said Tuesday. "I wanted to pursue some type of attention-getting attraction for the Center Court area and the carousel idea. ![]()
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