PLANT CITY — City and business leaders are hoping to revive a program they say will promote and strengthen downtown. Organizers hope to hire a manager who could, among other duties, manage special events downtown and otherwise coordinate merchants and others who have a stake in the business district. David Schultz, manager of Plant City…
Transportation planners have always envisioned the SunRail station in DeBary as a magnet for economic development, much the way other depots along the train’s route through Seminole and Orange counties have attracted billions of dollars in new projects. Unfortunately, it could use some juice. A year after the commuter rail service began in the rural…
SARASOTA – The Rosemary District, having already proved itself attractive to developers, now has the attention of downtown business owners. The Downtown Improvement District, an association of commercial property owners in Sarasota, is laying groundwork to annex the Rosemary District into its territory. That move would roughly double the area of the DID special taxing…
The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency is soliciting responses to this Request For Qualifications (RFQ) from interested parties for the purpose of providing professional consulting services to provide an integrated design for the existing Delray Beach Center for the Arts Campus and Old School Square Park; together these are to be referred to as Center…
The brothers who own the coffee cafes inside UF Health facilities have bought two city blocks on the edge of the Porters neighborhood with hopes of drawing people to new shops and events in the area. Bret and Tim Larson of Opus Coffee bought the property at 307 SW Fourth Ave. in 2012 to house…
What the St. Johns Riverkeeper has done for Northeast Florida’s major natural resource, Groundworks Jacksonville hopes to do for redevelopment. That means aggressive advocacy and rallying support for restoring Jacksonville’s ignored and forgotten urban gems. The best illustration of this is something called the Emerald Necklace, the network of creeks and riverfront property that link…
MANATEE — As the U.S. 41 corridor is targeted for redevelopment, some developers may have a perception that there is an environmental problem on potential sites. Manatee County, in partnership with Bradenton, Palmetto and the Sarasota/Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization, has received a $500,000 Brownfields grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA awarded the…
LAKELAND | A registration and inspection program would put rental homes on the code enforcement department’s radar and give the city another tool for maintaining the quality of neighborhoods to the level residents expect. “We are responding, or trying to respond, to pleas from our neighborhoods to improve conditions, improve accountability of landlords and hopefully…
Title: CRA Administrator Organization: City of Coral Springs Salary: $56,000 – $84,000 per year SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITIES: This position will be responsible for assisting in the implementation of formally adopted community redevelopment area plans within the City of Coral Springs Community Redevelopment Area (CRA), which is the redevelopment of Downtown. Performs administration and coordination of…
Title: Executive Director Organization: Port St. Joe Redevelopment Agency, Port St Joe, FL Salary: Hourly rate of compensation commensurate with experience Job Summary: Independent contractor, part-time employment. Responsibilities include the management of all PSJRA operations: administration, projects and programs. Please visit the PSJRA website for more information and a complete job description at www.PSJRA.com. Applications will…
What the St. Johns Riverkeeper has done for Northeast Florida’s major natural resource, Groundworks Jacksonville hopes to do for redevelopment. That means aggressive advocacy and rallying support for restoring Jacksonville’s ignored and forgotten urban gems. The best illustration of this is something called the Emerald Necklace, the network of creeks and riverfront property that link…
SARASOTA – Sarasota’s main redevelopment agency faces elimination next year, and its leaders have begun sketching out a final budget. The Downtown Sarasota Community Redevelopment Agency seeded downtown and Newtown neighborhood projects with more than $95 million over the past three decades, according to a financial update on Thursday. Among them were the Palm Avenue…
