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1616-18 Various Miami Beach cord high oil prices sent -00- arplylower-Fridayon FRANK PERDUE inflation fears.A weaker- SUPER BOWL ected job creation report, tially gave investors hope rROAOoco& 4,1 dCEOoinkc growth would remain r +r` South Florida's three le,was ultimately ignored, ` ll. 91' counties have pledged finished mostly lower for ! _....�. S •st d 0 0 M° 17,000 rooms to the • straight week. s bstitute for Supply Manage- - eiy - NFL for 2007's Super •1 i :vice sector index showed = Bowl, but at least seven u 'han-expected growth in non- / scare ., hotels included in the during businesses—and a region's bid may not be ' tnpinconsumerprices,sug /' u ° operating by then. der �tflation might yet take hold. , • ten MY --- -i -- "' ' Sheraton Bal r • rowth slows a bit I e ! " Harbour Beach �r a. Resort, � :r empire shhhKZ 0 0 9701 coulee Ave. )ills,turned more cautious in 1 400 rooms '":L#'l�-. ad boosted hiring by just __.._ . -i -{ Beam ilk% s ' Frank Perdue,one of the first jobs,the fewest in eight ram * + O Comfort Inn on •""'-''ll° Still,that was enough to i , 1 the Beach, CEOs to serve as his company's unemployment rate down I , nn ° Miami Beach, Sheraton Bal Harbour Beach Resort TV pitchman,died in Maryland. percent to 5.2 percent. e261 conies Ave Fr Since 1970,Perdue Farms'sales • 9 1` South �+. ! have grown fifty-fold. newest jobs report,released _: - ���� , Bud' 25 rooms �,; >y the Labor Department, m • eockei �� - 'i �e BALTIMORE — (AP) — To another mixed picture of the I 0 Ramada Miami t: ,...;,,.......1,� many people,Frank Perdue looked Ill�s hiring climate.The labor p ` Beach Resort, as been one piece of the a I i" ..,, .p „. as if he was born to sell chickens. 4041 Collins Ave. a R y that has struggled the most 175 rooms 4 j1 But it wasn't until he put his face ack to full throttle after the '� on TV commercials that his / r Comfort Inn on the Beach father's backyard egg business rap- Fession. Keyr O ,; Roney Plaza, idly grew into one of the world's 'M 2301 I rnlms Ave largest chicken companies. Palm stations bought �” 350 rooms Perdue,who became famous for * his folksy television pitch"It takes ya company Viacom has • r�l a tough man to make a tender two television stations in ' G O V Ritz Plaza Hotel ; , e chicken," diedr South Beach, • • at his atm Beach to bolster its posi- Sonesta Beach Resort, Sheraton Biscayne 1701 Collins Ave. the southern part of the state. Key Biscayne, Bay Hotel, 90 rooms �`� " Thursdayhome in Salisbury om already owns WTVX 350 Ocean Dr 495 Bnckell Ave. `* after a brief ill- WB)in West Palm,as well as 200 rooms 300 rooms Roney Plaza Hess,his company (Ustations Now it (CBS)and said.He was 84. (UPN). it also gets • LORI TODD,zACH FOLZENLOGEN/HERALD STAFF ( ' .- Perdue Perdue was B-CA,a Spanish-language sta- one the firsts ad WTCN-CA,which runs 'l.� CEOs oftpitch his ms for young adults,families PERDUE ownCEO product is ildren.Terms of the deal scot:RING television in 1971 't disclosed. and for the next two decades remained the company's public THINK IT'S HARD FINDING A ROOM FOR THE spokesman insist South Florida face—a face that reminded many Ings set for surcharges SUPER BOWL? SOUTH FLORIDA MUST FIND 1, will have more than enough beds viewers of a chicken. 500 for the big game. The region's In Frank Perdue's time at the singe begin next week fore con- OF THEM BEFORE THE BIG GAME I N 2007. Super Bowl bid identifies roughly helm, he helped build an empire sts tell the they thinkat 60,000 upscale hotel rooms in that now employs 20,000 associ- questfrom what about quest Florida Power& BY DOUGLAS HANKS III ers asking Broward County to Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm ates and partners with 7,500 in e- (FPL)to receive more than dhankso.herald.com pitch in rooms from the half- Beach counties. pendent farm families. The com- iillion in surcharges from cus- The construction spree remak- dozen new hotels scheduled to Jacksonville, this year's Super pany went from annual sales of$56 Is to pay for the damage caused ing South Florida's hotel industry open by then in Fort Lauderdale. Bowl host city,had to bring in five million in 1970 to $2.8 billion in lee hurricanes last fall. has complicated preparations for From the scheduled demolition cruise ships just to meet the NFL's 2003. He handed over control to arings will be held in West what could be the region's biggest of the Sonesta Key Biscayne in room minimum, his son Jim in 1991. Beach and Stuart on Anse 13. weekend ever: Super Bowl 2007. . 2006 to make way for a new "Whichever way you cut it, Perdue Farms opened plants in e Office of Public Counsel, The football championship resort,to the recent closing of the we've got the strongest hotel the '70s in rural,often-poor areas (represents consumers,says the comes to Dolphins Stadium that Ramada Miami Beach for conver- package in Super Bowl history," of the South, where labor was 's investors need to bear part of year, but at least 1,500 of the sion to an apartment complex,big said William Talbert III,head of cheap.Union activism sprang up, sts and only$128 million should 17,000 rooms South Florida has changes on the hotel landscape the Greater Miami Convention& which Perdue sought to suppress. •overed from customer sur- promised the National Football will take rooms out of service at a Visitors Bureau. Perdue is survived by his third es League are slated to be torn down time when the region will need Added Greg Aiello,vice presi- wife,Mitzi Ayala Perdue,four chil- or gutted by then. them most. dren, two stepchildren and 12 (NESS SCHOOLS That has Miami-Dade organiz- Local organizers and an NFL •TURN TO ROOMS,3C grandchildren. Florida on top list tree Florida universities made Jews and World Report's 2006 FORT LAUDERDALE >r the country's top graduate >eee schools. he University of Florida's War- Greyhawk Marine to build boatyard for 40 megayachts on School of Business ranked residential projects and other est in Florida,placing 42nd Dallas'Greyhawk Marine Street, where Greyhawk is con- she added. ng 189 schools ranked for overall Group has begun renovation of structing covered slips that will Marketing of the slips officially developments in recent years.Tha Ity. the Summerfield Boat Works accommodate 40 yachts from 80 kicked off Friday with an on-site won't happen at the old Summer he University of Miami's gradu- boatyard on the South Fork of feet to 160 feet. presentation aboard the 93-foot field yard,however. iusiness schoolFort Lauderdale's New River laced 74th;Flor- "There is nothing else in the yacht Sylvia's Surprise,docked at "Our business is not condomini P , nternational University placedwhere it wconstruct covered market like this project," said the site of the proposed marina. urns;our business is marinas;' or ill ll of 25 in a specialty ranking ofslips for 40 megayachts. Michelle Corson,a Greyhawk part- Five 120-foot slips,priced at$1S son said. lois offering graduate programs ner overseeing the Pier 17 Marina million each,will be the first to be Still, the renovation will meal temational business. BY PATRICK DANNER and Yacht Club."The scale of this listed,said Ginger Hornaday,Pier the loss of a boatyard and marin . pdanner aherald.com project is really enormous. Forty 1Ts director of sales and marketing. space for smaller boats. ;I With the shortage of South Flor- megayachts is huge." Overall, prices will range from$1 • Summerfield provided a variet rest deal still sought ida marina space particularly acute An entity affiliated with Grey- million to$3.5 million. of marine services, including rig for megayachts,Dallas-based Grey- hawk acquired the approximately When word spread last year that ging and painting. For the tim tCI(MGIC)invited Qwest Com- hawk Marine Group plans to pro- five-acre property for$5 million in Summerfield Boat Works was on being, some work will continue. nications International(Q)to vide some relief. January,and Corson said about$8 the market, there was some dis- "The big significance is pen merger talks Friday,just three Greyhawk has begun an over- million in capital improvements tress within South Florida's marine remains a marine facility," sal s after the long-distance phone haul of the World War II-era Sum- are planned. industry that it would mark the loss Frank Herhold,executive directs (pany agreed to a sweetened$75 merfield Boat Works boatyard on The work is expected to be com- of another marina. of the Marine Industries Associ: on buyout from Verizon and a the New River at Southwest 17th pleted by the middle of next year, Many have been replaced by tion of South Florida, after Qwest raised its bid to rly$9 billion. 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