BRADENTON — Bradenton’s Historic Ware’s Creek Neighborhood infill project is back on the move.
City clerk Carl Callahan said he will likely have ready by Wednesday’s city council meeting a contract to begin surveying multiple lots bounded by Ninth Avenue West, Ballard Park Drive, Eighth Avenue West and 17th Street West, with two properties encompassing several hundred feet of waterfront along the east bank of Ware’s Creek.
For years, Ward 3 Councilman Patrick Roff has targeted the area, marked by what Roff called slumlords catering to a bad element, for revitalization