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Sports bar planned in place of former strip club
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Restaurateur Angel Retana has plans to open a sports bar at the former site of the Top Of Gainesville strip club. The building was originally built as the Hall County Hospital that included an almshouse for the poor and elderly. - photo by Scott Rogers
Angel Retana stood in the center of the chilly, vacant building and looked at the cavernous room and wooden bar. “I’m a visionary. I see things already busy,” said the Gainesville restaurateur. “I see people having a good time here, a good time there. TVs everywhere, showing soccer games.”