When we undertook this piece, we had a simple goal. Tell someone moving out of a particular city the coolest potential smaller community to live in nearby. In doing so, we weighed three major factors: 1) A good (or at least respectable) food/drink scene, with enough places to go close to home to not always…
BRADENTON — Ward 5 City Councilman Harold Byrd has been named the first Chairman of the Bradenton Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). City Council members, acting as board members of the newly-formed Bradenton CRA, voted 4-0 in favor of Councilman Bemis Smith’s nomination of Councilman Byrd as Chairman during a meeting on April 13. Read full…
ISLAMORADA — The roughly 40-acre Parmelee Key property, in the midst of a pending sale that hinges on its subsequent redevelopment into a high-end resort community, is awaiting the state’s OK of land-use and zoning changes recently approved by the village. If given the OK from the Department of Economic Opportunity, and then again by the Village Council,…
