The St. Petersburg City Council has taken a creative step toward breaking the destructive stadium stalemate with the Tampa Bay Rays. The council’s vote Thursday to ask Mayor Rick Kriseman to seek an Urban Land Institute study of Tropicana Field’s redevelopment potential is positive movement, and Kriseman should pursue this option. The study should not…
CLERMONT — The old fire department in downtown Clermont may disappear from the landscape soon. That’s because city officials have begun discussions about demolishing it to create additional parking downtown. Fire Chief Carle Bishop said he remembers working out of the building, located at 882 West Desoto St., behind what is still the Police…
City officials and business leaders are optimistic that good things are coming to downtown Leesburg. More bistro-type restaurants, boutiques, sidewalk cafes and a little park with benches could be popping up on West Main Street as a result of the $3.8 million Streetscape Beautification Project that was unveiled Friday. “It has set a buzz in…
A year in the making, Leesburg’s $3.8 million Main Street Streetscape project is finally finished and ready for a ceremonial unveiling today. The project was conceived as a way to transform a tired, blighted section of the city into a vibrant, inviting gateway into downtown. The ambitious undertaking, which runs 2,800 feet from U.S. 27…
Title: CRA Administrator Organization: City of North Miami Beach Salary: DOQ Opened: Till October 1, 2015 SUMMARY: This highly responsible, professional, specialized, and process driven position involves citywide strategic planning, community redevelopment, serving the public interest, intergovernmental operation and cooperation, real estate expertise, and project coordination. Provides leadership to the Community Redevelopment Agency. Technical and…
Dozens of Leesburg residents, business leaders and political figures turned out Friday morning to witness the cutting of the ribbon and the ceremonial opening of Main Street following a year-long renovation. The project was conceived as a way to transform a tired, blighted section of the city into a vibrant, inviting gateway into downtown. The…
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn unveiled a 2016 city budget Thursday that seeks to share some of the spoils that have been showered on downtown. After a decade of heavy spending in the city center, and with corporate investment downtown finally taking off, next year’s budget is an appropriate course adjustment that returns the focus to…
Title: City Economic & Business Development Manager Organization: City of Fort Lauderdale Salary: $80,953.60 – $128,107.20 Annually This is responsible professional and supervisory work of considerable complexity involving the planning, implementation and coordination of programs and activities for either the Community Redevelopment Agency or citywide including but not limited to economic and business development.An employee…
Title: CRA Economic & Business Development Manager Organization: City of Fort Lauderdale Salary: $80,953.60 – $128,107.20 Annually This is responsible professional and supervisory work of considerable complexity involving the planning, implementation and coordination of programs and activities for either the Community Redevelopment Agency or citywide including but not limited to economic and business development.An employee…
TAMPA — After years of its structural condition and future prospects going from bad to worse, there is hope for Tampa’s historic Jackson House. Over the past year and a half, owner Willie Robinson Jr. has deeded the storied rooming house to a nonprofit group, the Jackson House Foundation. A local firm, Bracken Engineering, has…
NEW PORT RICHEY — Owners of residential rental property are likely to a get a lot more scrutiny from the city starting Jan. 1. During a meeting Tuesday night, the New Port Richey City Council unanimously approved on first reading an ordinance that will establish an inspection program requiring residential rental property owners to meet…
ST. PETERSBURG — After at least seven years on the market, lawsuits, angry neighbors and a toxic plume, the long-vacant Raytheon facility is about to get new life. Commercial Development Co., a St. Louis company that specializes in challenged properties for development or resale is poised to buy most of the 32-acre property with 500,000…
