Downtown Sarasota funding agency may fold SARASOTA – For nearly 30 years, downtown has been a center of attention for redevelopment funding. But with the funding source set to sunset in 2016, county and city officials are trying to decide whether that financial attention needs to continue. The Downtown Community Redevelopment Agency, created in 1986 to…
Gainesville wants to measure private interest in downtown lot The City Commission wants to measure private interest in the development of an often sparsely used city-owned parking lot downtown. But, in a shift of direction from the last round of talks on Lot 10, commissioners do not want to limit the discussion to a possible…
Plant City Downtown GardenFest may be the best ever, organizer says PLANT CITY – Barbara Wansley was among the many people who spent part of a sunny day in downtown for an annual event featuring gardening, arts and crafts and more. “I just moved back (to Plant City) after 30 years,” said Wansley, who likes…
