A plan to refresh and reimagine the City of Alachua’s Theatre Park is underway. On Alachua’s picturesque Main Street, the hidden gem known best as “Theatre Park” has seen better years. An overgrowth of vines, a dilapidated arbor, and structural uncertainty have left the park in a less attractive condition. The Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory…
The Orlando Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board will consider on May 22 advancing to the Community Redevelopment Agency a new service from Circuit Transit Inc. If approved by the CRA at a future meeting, five electric shuttles would be funded for a year for $595,712.50. Shuttles would run 10 hours a day, seven days a…
Just like the city it calls home, the Richey Suncoast Theater is about to turn 100. And last week, the theater got some help from the New Port Richey Community Redevelopment Agency in the form of a $100,000 grant. Built in 1925 and opened a year later, the theater was originally named for silent film star…
How would you feel about your power lines being underground? This is a real possibility for downtown Fort Myers. “We need these underground to keep these businesses up and take care of the downtown area,” said Liston Bochette III, commissioner of the Community Redevelopment Agency and City Councilman. “We need to get into this and…
Margate is soliciting offers to build a municipal mixed-use development that would include a new city hall and serve as the city’s “downtown” area. The development, called Margate City Center, would unfold on 51.4 acres on the east and west sides of U.S. 441 between Royal Palm Boulevard and Atlantic Boulevard. The developer would lease…
BBQ, Brews & Blues is returning for its ninth year in West Palm Beach’s Historic Northwest. Join the West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) at Heart & Soul Park, 825 North Rosemary Avenue, on Saturday, June 29, 2024, from 4 to 9 p.m., for an evening filled with live music, delicious food, craft beer,…
Developers are looking at investing more than $10 million into a vacant building in downtown West Palm Beach, according to city documents. The investors would then buy the property, located at 314 Clematis St., outright for another $7.6 million over five years. The West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency bought the building for $7.5 million…
The newly bricked and landscaped Park Avenue served as the backdrop for a recent ribbon cutting marking the official start of service by the new downtown shuttle known as The Squeeze. A happy crowd of citizens and officials representing Lake Wales Main Street, the Citrus Connection, the City of Lake Wales, and the Community Redevelopment Agency…
City officials are inviting the public to a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of a new park in northwest Ocala. The grand opening ceremony for Imagine North Magnolia Park will be held on Wednesday, June 5, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Located at 200 NW 15th Place, the new park was…
