TAMPA — Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and Cascade Investment still need access to a small piece of land for a key road in their $2 billion waterfront redevelopment. But there’s a problem: The owner of the neighboring ConAgra flour mill controls the parcel. So far, talks between the mill owner and the Vinik-Cascade…
St. Petersburg decided not long ago that it wants to launch an “innovation district” — a compact, walkable piece of downtown that houses a cluster of health care, higher education, marine research and other high-powered assets. Among those key assets hoping to collaborate are USF St. Pete, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Bayfront Health, USF…
AVON PARK — Exterior repairs made to homes and businesses with the aid of city Community Redevelopment Agency facade grants often do not amount to much more than “lipstick” on a deteriorating structure, Avon Park Administrative Services Director Maria Sutherland said Thursday. “It’s not a big amount of money, but it makes a big difference…
Four months after construction began on the new $8 million, 679-space parking garage just north of the county courthouse, the structure is taking shape since deliveries began a month ago of the precast concrete sections that make up the new structure. As the pieces arrive, a large crane lifts them and puts them into place,…
Fitch Ratings-New York-11 April 2016: Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ‘A-‘ rating on the following tax increment revenue bonds issued by the Orlando community redevelopment agency, Florida: –$14,965,000 tax increment revenue refunding bonds (Conroy Road district), series 2012. The Rating Outlook is Stable. Read full article
Brooksville should soon be part of the Florida Main Street program, which, depending on how you look at it, is happening either 31 years too late or just at the right time. A little history. In 1985, the old business districts of Dade City and Brooksville were reeling from the spread of shopping centers and…
SARASOTA – It’s no surprise immense growth is coming to downtown Sarasota, but the comprehensive picture of new hotel and residential development entails staggering increases headed to the heart of the city in coming years. City economic and planning leaders detailed planned development for the Downtown Sarasota Condo Association on Tuesday night, amid several questions from…
After decades as a sprawling big-box and strip center shopping area, Butler Plaza will soon get into the mixed-use business with development of the Butler Town Center with apartments over first-floor retail and restaurants, a seven-story Hyatt hotel and higher-end specialty shops around walkable, landscaped main streets. The town center has long been planned as…
Contractors seeking to help build the University of Central Florida’s downtown campus are expected to meet with university officials April 5 to glean more details on what is likely to be a $65 million project. The centerpiece of the project will be an academic building with about 165,000 square feet and include classrooms, library/study spaces, offices,…
Pieter Bockweg asked Miami commissioners Thursday to let him continue to serve as the city’s $150,000 director of the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency, or at least conduct an open search for his replacement. They would do neither. Commissioners voted Thursday to fire Bockweg and replace him with Jason Walker, the village manager of El Portal. Bockweg,…
ST. PETERSBURG — More than a dozen consultants want a chance to help the city redevelop Tropicana Field — with or without the Tampa Bay Rays. By Friday afternoon, 15 consultants from cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, and closer to home, from Orlando, Tampa and St. Petersburg, had responded to a…
Miami’s newest city commissioner is flexing his muscle as the chairman of an anti-blight district by moving to replace the agency’s head with the top administrator at the Village of El Portal. Commissioner Ken Russell recommended in a memorandum last week that his colleagues support him in removing Pieter Bockweg as the $150,000-a-year executive director…
