There’s no doubting the achievements of the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency in lifting the city from the doldrums to a dynamo. But after 30 years, the agency’s success has turned it into something of a runaway train, an engine that rakes in lots of money and seems hellbent to spend it — often to…
Economic development is at the epicenter of our daily lives. It affects where we live, work and play. The prosperity of this community depends on thoughtful investment of our tax dollars to create jobs and foster a culture of private reinvestment that will continue for generations to come. We are dedicated to economic development, which…
LEESBURG — Staffers will ask city commissioners Monday night to continue waiving impact fees for projects that redevelop vacant properties in the city. Leesburg created the waiver in March 2015, and staffers want it extended to September 2016. “The purpose of this extension is to continue to encourage businesses to locate in currently vacant structures…
Vivian Brooks received a lower rating this year for her work as the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency director, and two city commissioners want her fired. But a majority of the board thinks she deserves to keep her position — and has even voted to give her a 3 percent salary increase. The CRA approved the…
Economic development is at the epicenter of our daily lives. It affects where we live, work and play. The prosperity of this community depends on thoughtful investment of our tax dollars to create jobs and foster a culture of private reinvestment that will continue for generations to come. We are dedicated to economic development, which…
RIVIERA BEACH — After a decade-long delay, a giant resort and spa project is back on the drawing board for Riviera Beach’s Singer Island. The Wellness Resort and Spa complex would be composed of two 20-story towers along North Ocean Drive, less than a mile north of Blue Heron Boulevard. It would generate millions in…
TAMPA — After a marathon — and contentious — hearing that lasted until early Friday morning, the City Council denied a zoning change needed to build Altis Grand Central, a mixed-use project with 296 apartments proposed near the Oxford Exchange. Plans called for two apartment buildings, five and six stories tall, at 504 W Grand…
A controversial plan to eliminate two road-improvement fees charged to developers and replace them with something called a mobility plan, with rates some argue are too low, will be considered by Sarasota County commissioners at a public hearing Tuesday. If adopted, the mobility plan would supplant the existing system of road impact fees that Sarasota…
Dick Rosedale remembers a time in the 1980s when “you could roll a bowling ball” down Canal Street because of the lack of activity in the the city’s mainland downtown district. While the business climate there has waxed and waned since then, it seemingly hit critical mass in June 2011 when Canal Street was pocked with empty…
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — City commissioners voted 4-1 on Tuesday to approve the request by developers of a proposed 114-room beachfront hotel to build closer to the ocean, a critical step for the project to move forward. Poseidon Hotel Ventures, which is planning to build a SpringHill Suites by Marriott on about 1½ acres just…
In April, a Palm Beach company paid an eye-popping $20 million for two buildings in downtown Delray Beach. The buildings, at 326 and 400 E. Atlantic Ave., are known as the George buildings, after the family that owned them for decades. Now, at least one of the buildings is getting a face-lift. Menin Development recently…
It’s common for a shopping center in Boynton Beach to get a facelift. It seems like it’s happening all the time in the city. But what’s likely to happen at Riverwalk Plaza at Woolbright Road and Federal Highway will be more than a facelift. The plaza currently has a vacant Winn-Dixie as its anchor, and…
