If you live in an old building on South Florida’s prime waterfront, don’t get too comfortable: Developers want your sand. In the latest mega-deal to happen on the beach, a New York-based developer said he has struck a $55 million deal to buy a modest Surfside condo building that dates to the 1960s. His plan?…
LYNN HAVEN — The city Commission approved an agreement Tuesday for the acquisition and sale of a roughly 100-acre piece of bay-front property that is being proposed by developers as the future site of a “water-centric, marina-based development.” The Air Force still owns the former fuel depot property, but the city will have the first…
PUNTA GORDA — The influence of Sarasota’s midcentury modern architecture did not stop at the county line. Carl Abbott, a member of the so-called “Sarasota School” of modernist architects, has often said that the Sarasota School “was not just in Sarasota, but the world.” That includes Charlotte County, which is not often recognized as an…
