The City of Ocala is seeking proposals from for-profit and non-profit developers/organizations to build and manage attached or detached rental housing units for low income households in the Phoenix Heights neighborhood. View full RFP
SARASOTA, Fla. – The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s South District, in partnership with the city of Sarasota, the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council and Visit Sarasota County, will hold an educational symposium about the environmental and economic benefits of brownfield redevelopment on June 8 and 9. The annual symposium will share information about Florida’s Brownfields Redevelopment Program, which…
It’s a late Monday morning and downtown Fort Myers looks hungover. First Street is sleepy still, its restaurants just starting to unlock doors and unfurl umbrellas. In Patio de Leon an empty whiskey box sits perched in the branches of an oak tree, above a palm-thatched rollaway bar that’s yet to be rolled away. “We own all of…
Over the next 30 years, the city of Ocala intends to pump more than $60 million into improvements to address blight through the West Ocala Community Redevelopment Area. Committee members, area residents, city officials and NAACP representatives recently looked at and talked about some of the targeted sites. A bus tour included the Phoenix Heights…
The next top official of the Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority is no stranger to local government. Paige Carter-Smith has been hired as the organization’s executive director. She’s filling a void created by the departure of Jay Revell, who’s now vice president of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce. “I am excited about taking this position because…
Tired of hearing train horns while shopping and eating in Historic Downtown? City Commissioners are working to establish quiet zones in downtown. The regulations would ban trains from blasting their horns in the defined downtown area. At a City Commission meeting Monday, May 9, commissioners approved to match a $165,000 of grant from the Florida…
