SARASOTA – Software entrepreneur Jesse Biter’s plans for affordable apartments downtown may have new life with the involvement of another developer. On Monday, attorneys representing the Atlanta-based Carter Acquisitions, LLC, will ask the City Commission to let the project proceed under a new site plan and without paying into the city’s affordable housing trust fund.…
CRESTVIEW — A yet to be selected Main Street Crestview Association and CRA director will be an hourly position based on the budgeted and advertised $41,511 salary, including benefits. The Community Redevelopment Agency board unanimously approved the measure at its Nov. 10 meeting. Based on the job requirements, City Clerk Betsy Roy recommended the position…
In Eatonville, the historic hometown of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” author Zora Neale Hurston, their eyes may soon be watching helicopters soar over eight stories of Lamborghinis, Bentleys and yachts. At least that’s the plan being offered by developers who hope to transform the town into a futuristic commercial hub. The Eatonville Town Council…
EDGEWATER — Several years of planning will culminate next week when city leaders make their case to the Volusia County Council for the city’s first Community Redevelopment Area, a proposal that will look to rehabilitate a stretch of U.S. 1 and create a new downtown. City officials had originally pitched a 40-year CRA, in which…