Tom Rossi arrives at Seed & Bean, a downtown Fort Myers cafe, and walks inside not-quite soaked after a late summer downpour. He is here to talk about affordable housing—and the lack thereof across Southwest Florida—but before he can do that, he must define it. Affordable housing, the term, has become a great misconception, Rossi…
On Wednesday at the City of Cape Coral’s Community Redevelopment Agency, meeting developers for the city of Cape Coral recommended a new parking garage that included eliminating minimum parking times and creating more signs to direct people where to go. Currently, city staff reports that 74%of parking spaces in downtown Cape Coral are private and…
Downtown Boca Raton’s new Brightline station is being positioned as catalyst for growth — to build up a transit-oriented destination that will offer more new housing, stores and plenty more. The Boca Raton station, at 101 NW 4th St., and a station in Aventura each opened in December last year, increasing the number of South…