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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Michael Vasquez
Mar. 24--Hundreds of Coconut Grove residents -- convinced the arrival of a large-scale Home Depot hardware store will destroy their historic, still-somewhat-bohemian neighborhood -- are expected to descend upon Miami City Hall today, armed with picket signs, anti-Depot T-shirts and roughly 10,000 protest signatures.
It may not be enough.
While city leaders have vowed to prevent a typical, cookie-cutter Home Depot from coming to the Grove, there is little appetite at City Hall for a full-fledged battle to drive away the hardware chain. Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, for...
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