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mh RALEIGH OPERATORS HOPE TO RESURRECT SHORE CLUB 02/02/1995
THE MIAMI HERALD
Copyright (c) 1995, The Miami Herald
DATE: Thursday, February 2, 1995 EDITION: FINAL
SECTION: NEIGHBORS MB PAGE: 6 LENGTH: 38 lines
SOURCE/CREDIT LINE: RAFAEL LORENTE Herald Staff Writer
RALEIGH OPERATORS HOPE TO RESURRECT SHORE CLUB
John Cashman and Ken Zarrilli, who have turned the Raleigh Hotel into one
of Miami Beach's most popular and most photographed buildings, have taken over
the troubled Shore Club Ocean Resort.
The two hope to resurrect the property after a disastrous four-month
stint as a gay-oriented hotel. Former operators Dennis Doheny and partner
Patrick Reilly opened the hotel in September as Miami Beach's largest
gay-oriented resort. The two are best known for their successful nightclub
Paragon, which they sold for $1 million last year to the singer formerly named
Prince.
The new operators, who took over Friday, aren't sure what direction the
hotel will take, but it will be different.
"It certainly will not be an all-gay concept, " Cashman said.
Doheny and Reilly had a rocky time running the Shore Club, 1901 Collins
Ave. , as a gay resort. They closed temporarily in November to restructure
finances and gave up control of the property for good almost two weeks ago.
They were $200,000 in the hole when they opened, according to Doheny. They
also owed a significant amount of money when they closed to people who worked
on the building's renovation.
Now, it's up to the new operators to get the 226-room hotel back to
profitability. Cashman wouldn't talk about details, but said he and his
partner worked out a long-term deal with the Berkowitz family, who own the
Shore Club, Saxony and Crown hotels.
"It's a wonderful Deco property," Cashman said. "We're going to treat it
with the same reverence that we treat the Raleigh."
Cashman said as many as three of the four bars installed during the $4
million renovation of the 1940 hotel done by Doheny and Reilly will be taken
out. He also said the hotel's rooms and hallways would eventually be redone.
"Taste is in the eye of the beholder, " said Cashman, whose company did
extensive renovations on the Raleigh, a 1940 building at 1775 Collins Ave.
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