At the Northwest Florida League of Cities Summer Gala, Tallahassee City Commissioner Gil Ziffer was honored with the Florida League of Cities’ Home Rule Hero Award. This award recognizes Commissioner Ziffer’s tireless efforts to advance the League’s legislative agenda and help protect home rule powers of Florida cities. Home rule powers allow local cities and…
Like most pioneers of great cities and buzzing communities, Jeffrey Ross has had an incredible career and life. Ross came to Miami by way of Los Angeles, where he first entered the restaurant industry with his critically acclaimed seafood market and restaurant, Bayshore. He sold it 10 years later to, “take a break” and freelanced…
To encourage redevelopment on six thoroughfares in the Bradenton area, the Manatee County Commission took an initial step Tuesday by amending its long-range land-use plan to allow significant increases in potential homes per acre and square footages for offices and retail. The intent is to encourage redevelopment of declining properties, such as vacant shopping centers,…
Although she is not sure what it eventually will be called, Habitat Gastronomy on the Creek is the working name for the culinary park Rebecca Maddox plans for the vacant commercial lot across Haldeman Creek from her Three60 Market. “Right now, this is just a working title because it’s going to have fabulous food. I…
Any day now, Brooks Busey expects to sign a lease for a restaurant at his new development at Sadler Point Marine Center in Jacksonville’s Westside. That restaurant, which he declines to identify pending the lease, will launch The Bridge, an 18,000-square-foot former furniture and marine retail store to be converted into retail, office and restaurant…
The final details are still being worked out, but the agreement between the University of South Florida and the city of Palmetto was finalized Monday night. The USF Community Sustainability Partnership Program asks a community what are its important projects and what can USF offer to help the community achieve its sustainable goals. It is…
Is your CRA represented on social media? If not, you are missing out on a huge opportunity for raising awareness and growing support for your CRA. Social media sites are much more than networks of friends sharing stories and pictures. Increasingly, people are getting their daily news on social media and businesses are using these…
A South Carolina marina group is expanding its South Florida presence with the acquisition of the long-running Fort Lauderdale Boatyard and Marina, formerly called Jackson Marine. Atlantic Marina Holdings LLC announced this week that an affiliate had purchased the approximately 10-acre marina property, at 1915 SW 21st Ave., with plans to redevelop it. County property…
No one can say that community organizations are ignoring the needs of the Duval neighborhood of east Gainesville. They’re practically tripping over each other. In 2013, Alachua Habitat for Humanity chose Duval for neighborhood revitalization because the organization and others were already there doing home repairs, weatherization and painting, said Casey Smith, former Habitat director…
The City of Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is kicking off its Fiscal Year 2017 Promotional Special Event Grant Program Cycle. The CRA has $85,000 available to help fund promotional and/or special events within the Greater Frenchtown/Southside Community Redevelopment Area ($50,000) and the Downtown District Community Redevelopment Area ($35,000). The grant funds will be available…
ST. PETERSBURG — Is one of the prime sites near downtown St. Petersburg’s bustling Beach Drive poised for sale and redevelopment? That’s the speculation fueled by a new lawsuit against the owners of the dated Plaza Tower and Courtyard Shops at 111 Second Ave. NE, just a block off Beach and across the street from…
The Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency has been methodically putting in place a master plan for the Cornerstone economic development center in East Gainesville – 13.6 acres that includes the Gainesville Technology Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC). The work is paying off with the announcement that an established local business plans to relocate to the site, with the…
