By Candace Moore

Carmela's Italian Bakery had a few bumps in the road — some of them literal — during their first year in business. First was the case of mistaken identity: Carmela's is in the same shopping plaza where the well-known Ferrara's Italian Bakery was located — it closed four years ago after a 25-year run.

"We get people every day that come in and say 'We just saw the sign driving down U.S. 1 and didn't even know you were here' or 'We thought you closed years ago,'" said Carmela's owner-operator Brandye Pickering. And just before her grand opening, road construction began on South U.S. 1.

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