by Garth MeyerA former Riviera Village liquor store has been transformed into BeachLife Grotto restaurant, to open July 24, the latest project from BeachLife Festival co-founder Allen Sanford and partners.“We took a dilapidated liquor store, which is a kind of a thing of the past, that wasn’t contributing to the community much, and adaptively reused the building,” Sanford said.Architect Miles Pritzkat, whose office is also in Riviera Village, designed the two story-white wood b
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