Daily Archives: April 15, 2016

Naples likely to apply for grant money for sidewalk in River Park

The city of Naples wants to use federal grant money to construct a new sidewalk in River Park, the city’s poor, mostly black neighborhood whose residents say the area could be served by a variety of public facility improvements. The sidewalk would be built on the north side of Fifth Avenue North, stretching east from…

Editorial: The benefits of civic investment

We wish we had a nickel for every complaint we’ve received through the years about the Riverwalk, which was derided as a white elephant that no one would use. Instead, the 2.4-mile trail along the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa has proved itself a major success, attracting locals, tourists and investors to the urban core.…