ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The music is back at Jimmy B’s Beach Bar, and the staff served the first customers in more than a year on Thursday.

"We finally got to that moment of we're opening, and we're bringing Beachcomber and Jimmy B's back to the community and to the visitors," Shaun Kwiatkowski, the managing director of The Beachcomber Resort, said. "So, it was a lot of excitement, little nerves, little butterflies to get back into operations, but super excited."

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Hurricane Helene’s four to five feet of storm surge tore through the resort. They had to restore the hotel rooms, meeting and event spaces and hotel lobby on the first floor, and the pool and courtyard. About half of the hotel is brand new.

"Throughout the entire courtyard, we redid all the landscaping. So, fro

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