Your Weekly FRA Update – March 5, 2026 📰
🎤 Call for Sessions Now Open!
The 2026 FRA Annual Conference takes place October 20–23 at Sunseeker Resort.
Share your ideas for speakers and topics including Affordable Housing, Capital Stacking, Live Local implementation, Mobility, CRA extensions, Housing Rehabilitation, Community Policing & more.
🗓 Submit by March 13.
🎓 FRA Academy – March 6 | Orlando
Budgeting, Funding & Reporting (Core Course)
Topics include:
• Budgeting principles & increment revenue financing
• Grants (CDBG, HOME, SHIP, EZones)
• Public-private partnerships
• Developer contributions & cost sharing
• CRA compliance & reporting requirements
🎙 FRA Board “Take 5”
Five questions, five answers with FRA Board Member Antranette Forbes — learn about her leadership insights and her redevelopment “superpower.”
🏆 2025 FRA Award Winner Showcase
Outstanding New Building Project – Large City
City of Palmetto CRA – Sudsco West Laundry
A partnership-driven redevelopment project bringing jobs and future housing opportunities to the CRA district.
📍 CRAs Build Better Communities | #RedevelopmentWorks
⚾ Sprowls Horizon Sports Park – Pinellas Park
A $26.5M, 40-acre youth sports complex transforming a long-underutilized site and earning statewide recognition.
🏨 Boca Raton CRA approves redesigned downtown hotel & seven-story garage.
🏛 Florida Museum of Black History legislation advances in St. Augustine.
🌳 Orlando advances Lake Eola Gateway & downtown bond-funded improvements.
🚲 Coral Springs plans five walking & biking improvement projects.
🏗 Century CRA reemerges with $191K to address blight.
Plus more member highlights from across Florida.
💼 Now Hiring
Director, Housing & Economic Development – North Miami Beach
CRA Manager / Assistant City Manager – Crescent City
Finance & Compliance Officer – Pensacola
City Planner – Brooksville
Building Inspector – Brooksville
Principal Site Planner – Palm Beach County
Assistant Director – Main Street DeLand Association
Executive Director – Boynton Beach CRA
CRA Manager – Haines City
CRA Coordinator – Palatka
Assistant Director of Community Development Services – Wilton Manors
📑 RFPs / RFQs / Notices
CRA Consulting Services – Bradenton Beach CRA
General Planning Services Re-bid – Bradenton Beach
Notice of Property Disposal – Homestead CRA
Be involved. Share your knowledge. Submit a session. Apply for a role. Celebrate redevelopment wins.
CRAs build better communities.
Click here to read the March 5, 2026, FRA Newsletter
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