Grand opening day approaches for The Hangout

Restaurant at public beach to open May 2

Monday, April 21, 2008

By RYAN DEZEMBER

Staff Reporter

GULF SHORES -- A year ago the privately owned land at the city's public beach, called Gulf Place, was a vacant plot cordoned by a chain-link fence -- looking much as it had since the last wind-blown buildings, tattered by 2004's Hurricane Ivan, were demolished.

As recently as January, all that marked the property were a few frayed palms and dozens of round wooden pilings.

Now, however, there is a swarm of activity as workers put the finishing touches on a 17,833-square-foot restaurant in advance of its planned May 2 opening.

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