Daily Archives: September 11, 2013

Bradenton holds high hopes for restored historic hotel

Bradenton holds high hopes for restored historic hotel BRADENTON – The Pink Palace blushes no more. When it reopens as lodging in mid-November, after a $15 million upgrade, it will be beige. But that is rightly so, say historians, since the old Manatee River Hotel was off-white when it opened in 1926, at 309 10th St.…

Brownfields Program Turns Polluted Sites Into Economic Potential

Brownfields Program Turns Polluted Sites Into Economic Potential The Florida Brownfields Program facilitates redevelopment and job creation by empowering communities, local governments and other stakeholders to work together to assess, clean up and reuse sites that may have been previously impacted by pollutants. Brownfields are properties where expansion, redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by…