{"id":14999,"date":"2019-05-08T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=57857"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:41:27","slug":"winter-park-approves-first-public-common-consumption-area-for-alcohol-at-cooper-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/winter-park-approves-first-public-common-consumption-area-for-alcohol-at-cooper-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park approves first public common consumption area for alcohol at Cooper Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.2631578947368\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-57857-635\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/CC-entertainment-district-150x150.jpeg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/CC-entertainment-district-1024x544.jpeg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy | A map showing the boundaries of the entertainment district and common consumption areas.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/CC-entertainment-district-1024x544.jpeg\" alt><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>A map showing the boundaries of the entertainment district and common consumption areas.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/WPMeeting-shn-090718-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/WPMeeting-shn-090718.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy | Cooper Creek Square will now be able to let guests enjoy alcohol in their public courtyard during special events.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/WPMeeting-shn-090718.jpg\" alt><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Cooper Creek Square will now be able to let guests enjoy alcohol in their public courtyard during special events.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/winter-park-approves-first-public-common-consumption-area-for-alcohol-at-cooper-creek\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/winter-park-approves-first-public-common-consumption-area-for-alcohol-at-cooper-creek\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On any given Friday evening during the summer months, locals and tourists at Cooper Creek Square in Winter Park can enjoy live music in the shopping center\u2019s courtyard area. This summer, however, guests will get to listen to the performances in a new way \u2014 with a drink in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Winter Park Town Council approved the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/proposed-ordinance-would-allow-winter-park-businesses-to-create-common-public-areas-for-drinking-alcohol\/\">the town\u2019s first entertainment district<\/a> at Cooper Creek Square during its Tuesday meeting. The entertainment district allows guests to purchase alcohol from any restaurant within Cooper Creek and enjoy it outside the restaurant in the common consumption area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, someone could buy a drink from (Casa Mexico) and they could, if there\u2019s music going on on Friday night, they could walk into the courtyard that\u2019s licensed and enjoy their cocktail,\u201d said Winter Park Town Clerk Danielle Jardee.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment district includes all of Cooper Creek Square\u2019s six restaurants \u2014 Paella\u2019s, Sushi Nama, New Hong Kong, Casa Mexico, Durbar and Mountain Grind Coffee and Bistro \u2014 and shops, which can\u2019t sell alcohol without a liquor license, but guests will be able to enter with their drinks unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been asked many times to have this kind of convenience,\u201d said Mark Hanna, a representative of the Cooper Creek Square Merchants Association, which applied for the entertainment district license.<\/p>\n<p>The common consumption area includes the walkways and outdoor courtyard area with barriers demarcating the boundaries of the district. No outside alcohol will be allowed in the entertainment district and guests with alcohol also must remain within the common consumption area.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Creek\u2019s entertainment district is subject to certain restrictions, with the main one being that the entertainment district rules only apply on certain days and times. Guests will only be allowed to drink in the common consumption from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the appointed days.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Music on Square, which happens every Friday starting June 21 and ending Aug. 30, Cooper Creek has planned four specific events to take advantage of the entertainment district, including an ice cream social on July 6, a Labor Day block party on Aug. 31, a Halloween bash on Oct. 26 and a wonderland of lights celebration on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Hanna said more events could be added in the future, especially if new restaurants open in Cooper Creek and join the entertainment district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of our restaurants, we have a couple spaces we\u2019re looking for new tenants and we envision them participating,\u201d he said. \u201cWe think 10, eventually, will be participating in this, so we tried to include those areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/winter-park-approves-first-public-common-consumption-area-for-alcohol-at-cooper-creek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A map showing the boundaries of the entertainment district and common consumption areas.Courtesy Cooper Creek Square will now be able to let guests enjoy alcohol in their public courtyard during special events.Courtesy Show CaptionsHide Captions On any given Friday evening during the summer months, locals and tourists at Cooper Creek Square in Winter Park can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 17:32:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}