Major development planned around Lulu's restaurant - al.com

Major development planned around Lulu's restaurant - al.com: "Mac McAleer recalls bringing Lucy Buffett to the 27-acre site near the Dr. W.C. Holmes Bridge and hugging the Intracoastal Waterway and saying it would be the home for her new restaurant.

'She said, 'Are you kidding me?'' McAleer said last week, smiling.

Lulu's at Homeport Marina opened five years ago. Last year, 200,000 people came through, and the restaurant did $13 million in food and retail sales, McAleer said. Folks wait up to three hours for a table, listening to live music while sitting at one of three bars or watching their kids play in the mega sandbox."