Daily Archives: May 11, 2015

Miami builder plans downtown Fort Myers high-rise

Miami-based Jaxi CMD LLC has purchased the old Cypress Club high-rise site in downtown Fort Myers for $4,675,000 and plans to begin sales for a luxury condominium there next year. If Jaxi starts construction in 2017 as planned, it will be the first high-rise to get underway in downtown Fort Myers since Oasis broke ground…

Pinellas commissioners bless new plan to tackle blighted areas in St. Petersburg

CLEARWATER — The city of St. Petersburg’s effort to transform its poverty-stricken southern neighborhoods took a major step forward Tuesday when the Pinellas County Commission endorsed a new approach to community redevelopment. The commission voted 6-0 to move forward with the Southside Community Redevelopment Plan — and to try to get it done on the…