The city of Tavares, which transformed itself from a dreary government town with nowhere to get lunch into America’s Seaplane City over the past several years, is about to take the next step — but it should tread carefully.
The new idea is to demolish the building where the clerk of the court’s recording section remains housed until the end of May, adjacent to city hall. That would clear out a full city block along Main Street between New Hampshire and North Rockingham avenues, leaving a sweeping view to Lake Dora. Niiiice.
The plan calls for building retail shops, probably with housing above, as part of a shopping and entertainment square open to the lake with only the Prop Shop at the Woodlea House between the square and the shoreline.