SARASOTA – The Rosemary District, having already proved itself attractive to developers, now has the attention of downtown business owners.
The Downtown Improvement District, an association of commercial property owners in Sarasota, is laying groundwork to annex the Rosemary District into its territory.
That move would roughly double the area of the DID special taxing district, in which commercial property owners pay extra taxes for improvements such as added security and landscaping.
It also would merge the established downtown business core with Rosemary, an area to the north of Fruitville Road that remains blighted but appears on the verge of a profitable transformation.