Lawyer for Naples who argued against three-story building with underground garage now defends it

Naples City Attorney Bob Pritt, who previously agreed that a three-story building with an underground garage violates the city’s charter, now has changed that opinion, arguing that a similar downtown development proposal is consistent with the charter. In the city’s first filing responding to a lawsuit by two downtown property owners in Collier County’s Circuit…

Former CRA directors talk Delray Beach, WPB development

Branding a blighted downtown as an arts and entertainment district, making streets more pedestrian-friendly and luring new restaurants helped redevelop the urban cores of Delray Beach and West Palm Beach, according to two former community redevelopment leaders who have turned their experience into a book. Christopher Brown, former Community Redevelopment Agency director in Delray Beach,…

Apopka prepares to tie bow on vision document

There’s the historic train depot with peeling, yellow pant that stands near a rusty real line. Sidewalks empty of runners, strollers or dogs. A few vacant, city-owned lots populated by palm trees and the occasional lamp post. The area around Station Street and Central Avenue in downtown Apopka doesn’t look like much now. But to some, it’s…