Weekly FRA Newsletter: July 23, 2026

Redevelopment Week is just around the corner! Download the FRA toolkit for ready-to-use resources that will help your CRA participate in a coordinated statewide campaign highlighting the projects, partnerships, and investments transforming Florida’s communities.

📅 Kickoff Webinar: July 31 at 12:00 p.m. ET (No registration required.)

🌿 FRA Webinar Available
Brownfield Basics

Watch FRA Board Member Miles Ballogg’s webinar covering brownfield redevelopment fundamentals, funding opportunities, redevelopment strategies, and tools Florida CRAs can use to transform environmentally impacted properties into community assets.

📚 FRA Academy
CRA 101
🗓 August 7 | Orlando

This core FRA Academy course covers the history of redevelopment, creating and managing CRAs, Chapter 163 requirements, governance, eligible expenditures, ethics, reporting, and other redevelopment fundamentals.

📰 Redevelopment News
Featured stories:
• Haines City Community Redevelopment
• Lakeland Midtown Redevelopment Plan
• Flagler Beach Downtown Beautification Award
• Clearwater Cleveland Street Activation Initiative
• Tampa West Riverwalk Extension
• Sebring Motorsports Heritage Museum

Additional redevelopment news from:
• West Palm Beach
• Fort Walton Beach
• Riviera Beach
• Cape Coral
• Lake Wales
• Fort Myers

…and other redevelopment projects from communities across Florida.

💼 Job Opportunities
Featured positions include:
• CRA Accounting Finance Manager – Boynton Beach CRA
• CRA Manager – City of Haines City
• Executive Coordinator – Delray Beach CRA
• Permit Technician – City of Bradenton Beach
• Building Official – City of Bradenton Beach
• Building Inspector – City of Brooksville

Plus additional redevelopment and planning opportunities from FRA members statewide.

📣 RFPs / RFQs
Additional redevelopment contracting opportunities are available from FRA members throughout Florida.

Click here to read the July 23, 2026, FRA Newsletter