FORT LAUDERDALE — Thousands of new condos and apartments are coming to downtown, and the county wants them to include places where regular workers can afford to live. The city is seeking Broward County‘s permission to add 5,000 residential units downtown, and officials say they will reserve 750 of them — or 15 percent — for housing…
Gainesville is considering setting up a Community Redevelopment Area in a northwestern part of the city that includes the Koppers Superfund site, a move that could bolster efforts to improve that troubled sector. The Koppers site, Gainesville High School, Stephen Foster Elementary School, nearby shopping centers and the city’s Public Works Complex all fall within…
MOUNT DORA—The City Council approved ordinances Tuesday night needed for Epic Theatres to come to Mount Dora, but that also allow for taller buildings in part of the city. Structures as tall as 65-feet are now allowed in C3 zoning, the highway commercial zoning district that is allowed on U.S. Highway 441, County Road 19A…
ArtPlace America has recently announced a new grant program, the Community Development Investments, designed to provide $3m in funding along with assistance to organizations interested in leveraging arts and cultural strategies to support ongoing and upcoming projects and plans in their communities of focus. ArtPlace America (www.artplaceamerica.org) is a ten-year collaboration of major foundations, federal agencies,…
In the circles of Key West city government, two words have become shorthand for “Big plans talked about for years that never materialize.” Truman Waterfront — as in the grand park Key West officials have promised for well over 15 years. Read full article
Crystal River officials are looking for a sign — literally. Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) board members will discuss the possibility of installing corner signs inside the CRA District. With the installation of signage posts at to-be-determined corners, businesses will have the chance to order a uniformed sign to better guide potential customers. The city would…
ORMOND BEACH – A nearly $1 million effort to revitalize medians and sidewalks along another portion of Granada Boulevard marks the second phase of a project to refurbish Ormond Beach’s main thoroughfare. City commissioners approved a $939,400 project last month to landscape medians and sidewalks along Granada from Orchard Street to State Road A1A. The majority…
MOUNT DORA — Residents can learn details of the third phase of the downtown-streetscape project at a meeting at 6 p.m. Monday. The joint meeting of the City Council and the Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Committee will be held in the Donnelly Park Building. Read full article
BOYNTON BEACH — A retail and residential development was approved for the corner of Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue in Boynton Beach months ago, but the land remains vacant. Negotiations of a financial agreement between the Boynton Community Redevelopment Agency and the project’s developer has held back any progress. That’s expected to change Tuesday, when the…
PLANT CITY — Postal officials have decided that the downtown post office, closed since 2013 due to safety issues, should be shuttered permanently. The U.S. Postal Service cited “dire economic times” in making the call to close the nearly 80-year-old landmark at 301 W. Reynolds St. A postal regulatory commission has until Feb. 27 to file…
Lauderdale Lakes has apparently avoided another financial crisis — one that would have been of the commission’s own making. The city averted bankruptcy in 2011 through agreements that have been allowing it to pay $11.7 million in debt to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency over an extended number of years.…
A service that has grown popular in downtown Delray Beach for offering free rides with its fleet of electric carts is considering expanding to a new location: downtown Boca. Since 2012, the Delray Downtowner has given rides to passengers across a two-mile radius of Delray’s downtown for free, except for what the passengers would like to tip the…
