Daily Archives: February 15, 2014

Historic board to city: Save Tinker Field as landmark (Orlando)

Orlando’s Historic Preservation Board wants Tinker Field to be declared a local landmark — a designation that would stall the city’s plans to tear it down. It would be irresponsible not to try to save the rundown ballpark where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke, one member of the preservation board said in voting to start…

Drainage, lighting topics of special CRA meeting (Avon Park)

AVON PARK – The undertaking to revitalize and economically invigorate Avon Park’s southside has been a bit bumpy but began a process of smoothing out Wednesday night. At a Special Meeting of the Southside Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Advisory Board, the Citizens Advisory Task Force listened to a presentation by an Avon Park’s Cool &…