Restaurant Gets $65K From Taxpayers Before Closing Shop
Looks like Try My Thai in Hollywood is closed less than two years after the city government funded a new kitchen for the restaurant:
Owner Tai Vaz said the 15-year-old business "was not for me anymore."Note to the city of Hollywood: maybe you should stop doling out city funds to local for-profit businesses?"I didn't want to punish my customers for having lost my passion," she said, adding that tough economic times eased her decision.
For years, the restaurant was popular with critics, police officers, residents, tourists and many of the city's movers and shakers.
The family business first opened at 2003Harrison St., but in 2006 asked commissioners for an $80,000 grant to help move a block east. A number of influential people, including lobbyist Alan Koslow, took turns vouching for the owners.
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Try My Thai is the latest in a string of businesses that have vanished from downtown despite financial help from the city. In March, the city hired a law firm to start collection proceedings against the owners of nationally acclaimed restaurant Michael's Kitchen and baby boutique The Casa Collection. The downtown redevelopment agency gave the two businesses a combined $175,000 in incentive grants, but they later closed.
Hollywood restaurant that got $65,655 from city is now closed [Sun-Sentinel]
