Change is coming to Lake Ivanhoe’s eclectic business district, and merchants are hoping they can keep their identity as a planned August groundbreaking approaches for the mixed-use project that will include apartments, stores and restaurants. What impact the development known as The Yard will have on parking, traffic and overall character of the neighborhood is…
Often asked about concerns with a recent surge in downtown redevelopment, Naples mayoral candidates Bill Barnett and John Sorey have both taken a consistent stance — the plans to revitalize Fifth Avenue South have worked, and the city should be careful not to abruptly turn its back on those plans. Their position stems from their…
PORT ST. LUCIE — City officials are in talks over buying the City Center property owned by enigmatic developer Lily Zhong, according to a bombshell legal filing last week. The filing — part of the Securities and Exchange Commission investment-fraud case against Zhong — reveals that a receiver over Zhong’s frozen assets has been “in…
Request for Qualifications Professional Services for Neighborhood Commercial Area Market Study for Grandview Street – Mount Dora Northeast Community Redevelopment Agency (PROPOSAL No. 16 – 5151 -001) Statement of Purpose The Mount Dora Northeast Community Redevelopment Agency (NECRA) is in need of professional services for the production of a Commercial Market Study. The NECRA…
To commercial brokers and developers, a 1.3-mile stretch of U.S. 1. is one of the hottest spots in Indian River County. Between Eighth Street and 18th Street, two long-shuttered car dealerships have been leveled and other land has been cleared to make way for new retail stores and restaurants. Signs of the area’s resurgence, which…
Hoping to bolster UCF‘s case for a downtown campus, the city of Orlando on Tuesday revealed $75 million in commitments to the project. An agreement set to be presented Monday to the City Council pledges that Orlando would hand over more than $42 million in land and property alone for the campus, plus road and sewer…
St. Pete City Council will vote on a resolution supporting ten items aimed at improving conditions on the Southside at its meeting Thursday. The items are recommended by the Citizens Advisory Committee to be funded through the first round of appropriations from the newly created Southside Community Redevelopment Area. Five of the proposals would use…
FROSTPROOF — A local grocery store may have taken another step to becoming a reality. At their workshop Tuesday, Town Council members, except for Mayor Ralph Waters who was absent, agreed to offer a $75,000 grant to Save-A-Lot franchise owner Kim Walker to open a store in Frostproof. City Attorney Mark Smith described Frostproof as…
The Century Town Council decided Monday night to hold off on forming a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) until they can find out how much of the necessary paperwork might be done with the help of Escambia County. Upon declaration of an area as blighted, the CRA works to improve conditions. As property tax values rise,…
The City of Pensacola, Escambia County and Baptist Health Care have entered into a partnership of sorts to explore the possibility of triggering a portion of the west side into a re-birth. A year and a half ago they hired Live Work Learn Play, a Montreal-based real estate development and advisory firm, to look at how the…
Leon County and Tallahassee city commissioners discussed a range of issues, from the south side, transportation planning, policing and economic development at a town hall-style forum Monday night. More than a hundred residents tucked into the chapel of Bible Based Church on Woodvillle Highway for the Tallahassee Town Hall forum hosted by the Village Square.…
That’s Subculture Coffee co-owner Sean Scott’s idea for opening communications between city hall and downtown businesses. The Clematis Street uber-barrista put out the word last week on Facebook to fellow business owners to join him in meeting with Mayor Jeri Muoio and other West Palm Beach officials on a regular basis about issues of concern: “I…
