NAPLES, Fla. – Naples City Council will hear several presentations on the history of Central Avenue and future plans on Wednesday, when business owners are expected to fill council chambers to complain. Follow Naples Daily News reporter Aisling Swift for live updates from the meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m. The business owners are opposed to a plan by the…
Legacy Trail, the popular biking and jogging path built on a former railroad corridor in central and south Sarasota County, will be connected to downtown Sarasota under tentative plans approved by Sarasota County commissioners today. The additional segment would extend from the current cutoff in Palmer Ranch north to Payne Park, creating nearly 20 miles…
Title: Contract Manager Organization: City of Delray Beach Salary: $40,000 – $70,000 annually General Description: This is a responsible, detail-oriented professional position performing a broad range of services related to the management and administration of the agency’s various contracts and agreements. Responsibilities include coordination and oversight of contract requirements, including timelines, deliverables, terms and conditions,…
Title: Planner I or Planning Technician Market Groups: Planning & Landscape Architecture Category: Planning Job Summary: Assists Senior or Principal Planner in preparation of documents, plans and graphic exhibits Essential Duties: Performs research and attends public meetings to provide summaries to project team. Assists with preparation of planning and development related applications, reports, and documents.…
Title: Planner – Principal or Senior Market Groups: Planning & Landscape Architecture Category: Planning Type: Full-time Job Summary: Work encompasses all aspects of planning and project management for public agency and private clients. Includes preparing and processing applications for local and state agency review and preparing master plans, analyses, evaluations and reports related to commercial,…
Job Title: Technician I or II – Landscape Architecture Market Group: Planning & Landscape Architecture Location: Fort Myers, Florida Job Summary: Assist Landscape Architects and Planners in application of principles, methods and techniques of land planning and landscape architecture with special emphasis on computer aided drafting. Essential Duties: Reviews development standards and assists Landscape Architect…
In Manatee, overweight residents made up about 36 percent of the population, but nearly two-thirds of residents in both counties exercised for more than 150 minutes per week, a marker of physical well-being. “Our research very consistently shows that people that have high well-being scores in all five elements, which Sarasota-Bradenton-North Port have, consistently outdo…
INVERNESS — It’s not just county officials giving the Inverness City Council a hard time about its plans to expand the community redevelopment area (CRA) district. About 20 residents of a neighborhood off Vine Street, near a mobile home park and an orange grove, asked the council at a meeting Tuesday evening to exclude their…
DELAND — City officials are inching closer to deciding how to use $429,000 that became available after a proposed downtown mixed-use development fell through last year. The downtown Community Redevelopment Agency board, made up of the five-member City Commission plus two downtown business owners, met recently and went over the results of a January public meeting…
SEBRING — The sale of two historic downtown Sebring hotels have been finalized. Developer Tony Collins bought both the Santa Rosa Hotel at 509 N. Ridgewood Drive and the Nan-ces-o-wee Hotel at 139 N. Ridgewood Drive, according to press releases from real estate agent Madge Stewart. Collins has said that he plans to redevelop the two…
One by one, your excuses for not making downtown Stuart’s entertainment district your regular weekend spot are getting scratched off the list. Read full article
TAVARES — City officials are poised to start a worldwide search for developers and investors to build a recreation, retail and entertainment square in downtown, adjacent to City Hall. The plaza dubbed “Tavares Square” would take over the property of the clerk of courts’ Public Records Center, which the city agreed to buy from Lake County for about…
