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City of Miami Gives Scotty's Landing 60-Day Notice

It may soon be last call at a popular South Florida restaurant.

The City of Miami has notified Scotty's Landing in Coconut Grove that it has 60 days to pack up and go.

The move would make way for the Grove Harbour Project, a proposed 83,000-square-foot mega complex consisting of restaurants and retail space.

"This is the rebirth of the waterfront in a genuine authentic way because they're preserving the Pam Am hangars. People can have all the great things they attribute to waterfronts except now we won't have barbed wire and asphalt," said Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff.

A letter was sent to the restaurant on Aug. 12.

The Scotty's Landing name was sold, so there is a possibility the restaurant could reopen at the new complex. The new owners, the Grove Bay Investment Group, bought the name in hopes of opening a new restaurant with outdoor seating.

But patrons worry the same name won't have the same feel they've come to love.

"The charm will be gone. The charm is this," one patron said.

An attorney for Grove Key Marina, where the restaurant is located, released the following statement:

"We were surprised to get it. We would assume the city would wait for the appeals court to finalize their ruling. It's still not final, hence our surprise. We'll see where we go from here."

There have been lawsuits to try and block the new developers, but it appears nothing more can be done to keep it there.

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