Tower Mini Mart opens

Abandoned safe yields hidden treasure

by Tony McReynolds

posted 8/16/2011

Nabeel Gneym made money at his new Tower Mini Market before he'd even opened the store--and it came in the form of hidden treasure.

When Gneym, fifty, leased the onetime Matthew C. Hoffmann jewelry store in Tower Plaza, there was a 5,000-pound safe, six feet high by four feet wide, sitting in the middle of the space. No one seemed to know who owned it or where it came from, only that it had been in the store for over thirty years.

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