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Former Supermarket Gets New Life as Country-Western Nightclub

ORLANDO-Desperado's in rural Lake County is drawing dancers from 30 miles south in Orlando eager to rock and roll on a 3,900-sf floor, one of the largest of its kind in the Southeast. The club's capacity is 1,800.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on November 01, 2000

ORLANDO-Capitalizing on a hot country-western musical market, restaurant owners/developers James W. Tilquist and Al Miller sank an estimated $3 million into converting a 15-year-old, 28,000-sf former Publix Supermarkets building into Desperado’s, a party place with a 50-foot long bar and a 3,900-sf dance floor.

That venture in itself wouldn’t be newsworthy in a metropolitan area but in Mount Dora, FL, a New England-themed city with a permanent population of 8,000, the commercial undertaking is getting everybody’s attention.

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