The city of Temple Terrace embarked on another gut-check last month over its long-stalled dream of redeveloping its city center. The frustration with the failed plans over the years and the fiscal pressure on the city to get something — anything — going certainly is understandable. But the city should step back and take stock…
A plan to make South Florida Avenue through Dixieland and downtown a three-lane “complete street” will head to the City Commission with strong support from the redevelopment agency advisory board. “I’m going to be supportive of it and carry the ball as far as I can,” City Commissioner Jim Malless said Thursday. Malless is the…
Despite the city’s reputation over the years as an anything-goes party place during Spring Break, Bike Week and Speedway races, there is not a single place within city limits to get a tattoo. That could change in a few months. In April city commissioners will decide whether to OK a proposal to allow tattoo parlors…
A Phoenix developer is planting its flag deeper into the Central Florida sand with plans for an estimated $50 million mixed-use high-rise in the downtown Orlando area. Alliance Residential Co. plans to develop Lake House, a 10-story complex on the shores of Lake Ivanhoe with 276 luxury apartment units, 12 live/work units and a 515-space…
A big day for Jacksonville. That comes from the chairman of the Downtown Investment Authority after the board OK’s an $89 million redevelopment plan for four historic vacant buildings in downtown, some of which will involve taxpayer money. Around $10 million in incentives was unanimously approved by DIA with some amendments during today’s meeting, with…
The heart of Jacksonville’s downtown could be getting a hotel, apartment space, retail, offices, dining options and a rooftop bar. Jacksonville’s Downtown Investment Authority recommended Wednesday nearly $10 million in city incentives for the developers of four historic buildings near Hemming Park. Since 2013, there’s been talk of repurposing the empty buildings, but it hasn’t…
The days are numbered for people taking shortcuts across the FEC train tracks in downtown Delray Beach. The city plans to install pedestrian barriers by the end of the summer. In mid-January, the City Commission approved a pedestrian barrier of aluminum rail fencing with occasional landscaping along both sides of the track for one block…
Wawa officials want to build a convenience store with 16 fueling pumps on Palm Bay Road, at the shuttered site of Bob Evans, which closed abruptly last April. The redevelopment project is slated for the northwest corner of the Durham Drive intersection. “The service station has been able to accomplish what other users on Durham Drive…
New life could finally be coming for the Laura Street Trio and Barnett Building in Downtown Jacksonville. There have been plans to redevelop these properties in the past, but the head of the Downtown Investment Authority says this latest attempt is the closest they’ve been to seeing action. The Mulasky Group and SouthEast Group are…
City leaders will consider today whether to award a contract to electric shuttle vendor Gotcha Ride to offer free rides around the downtown area. The service would include seven six-seat electric shuttles that can be hailed on a mobile app to ferry residents, visitors and workers around downtown without moving their cars. If approved, Gotcha…
The latest downtown revitalization plan unveiled this week calls for walkable green spaces and a bustling town square peppered with outdoor dining and retail shops to fill the vacant storefronts. But the 146-page blueprint the city paid consultants nearly $400,000 to write makes no mention of the Church of Scientology’s future implications on downtown revival…
Residents in Malone will be receiving water in a more a dependable and sustainable way. The town was funded more than $270,000 from the Northwest Florida Water Management District in December 2015 for new water main lines. Now they’ll be able to see those funds come to fruition. That money is channeled into installing the…
