Pier Park Roster Keeps Growing            Excerpts from Panama City News Herald                          Daniel Carson, News Herald Writer

PANAMA CITY BEACH - Nov. 21, 2007
    A therapeutic massage clinic, area art gallery and German restaurant modeled after Munich’s famous beer gardens were among the five new Pier Park eateries and retailers announced Tuesday by Simon Property Group.
    Les Morris, a spokesman for Simon Property Group, said Massage Envy, Fish Tales, Hofbrau Beer Garden, Bootleg Barbecue and Tilly’s will join the Panama City Beach development’s still growing list of restaurants and stores that plan to open in February 2008.
    Morris said the Indianapolis-based real estate company expects to make a number of Pier Park-related new store announcements before the end of the year.
    “We’re definitely going to have more,” Morris said.
    Fish Tales, owned and operated by glass artist Cindy Stephens and her husband, Buddy, will relocate its Grayton Beach location to Pier Park, according to a Simon news release.
    Bootleg Barbecue will be located across from the Grand 16 movie theater, and Morris said all of the stores will be in Pier Park’s Boardwalk section near Front Beach Road.
    Massage Envy, which offers Swedish, deep-tissue and other forms of massage therapy, made Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2007 Franchise 500 list, coming in at 149, and has 300 clinics in 38 states.
    Hofbrau Beer Garden will seat 233, with a beer hall and bar, beer garden and café. It will have five Hofbrau beers available on tap.
    The final store announced, Tilly’s, offers surf, skate, motocross and Southern California lifestyle clothing, shoes and accessories, according to its Web site.