NEW SMYRNA BEACH — With only about $214,000 left in the Community Redevelopment Agency budget this fiscal year for big-ticket grants, commissioners decided Tuesday to split it evenly between two projects. The grants were for opportunity sites, defined in the city’s CRA rules as “high priority” properties for redevelopment that would provide a “maximum positive…
PANAMA CITY — Commissioners acting as the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) board will consider sponsoring a technology conference in downtown Panama City during today’s meeting. The $2,500 sponsorship would be split with the Downtown Improvement Board and the Economic Development Alliance (EDA) to promote Panama City as a future home of technology-based businesses. [Read Full…
The athletically inclined soon will have even more reasons to visit downtown Fort Walton Beach. Bikers, runners and walkers will see two new retail developments in the coming days, further solidifying downtown as a new hub for athletic specialty stores. On Tuesday, Run With It, which specializes in running shoes, is moving a few doors…
PANAMA CITY — Silicon Valley with a view or a self-sustaining communal fishing village? Take your pick. These are the directions city officials are hoping to take the two “downtowns” of Panama City. One is the easy-going waterfront of St. Andrews, the other the government hub and entertainment draw of downtown Panama City. Though contrasts…
BOYNTON BEACH — The city’s community redevelopment agency is launching www.catchboynton.com, a new Internet application that will provide one central location for local consumers to find businesses, sign up for deals, receive coupons, find a job and more. Business owners will be able to create interactive “micro web sites.” [Read more]
SAN ANTONIO — The only things missing were the guitar and the kumbayahs. Members of Pasco’s six city councils met Thursday night with county commissioners and staff to get a first look at the county’s economic development strategy, which planners unveiled in November after spending a year and a half working with business leaders, the…
CLEARWATER — Downtown Clearwater is not a place that’s widely known for its high-tech startup companies. It’s a long way from Silicon Valley. Still, the city estimates that roughly 600 people are working in more than a dozen software or information technology companies in and around the downtown district. Many are in the Clearwater Tower…
Sanibel City Council cleared a lot of routine items on its meeting agenda Tuesday, but Mayor Kevin Ruane suggested the commercial redevelopment report needs more time and discussion than it has received at recent meetings. “I just think we need to sit down as a council and have a discussion on this subject without distraction…
EUSTIS Staff Report When the city cut Eustis Main Street Inc. funding levels from $58,750 in 2011 to $25,000 last year, it left the nonprofit organization in a hole that’s proving difficult to escpare, city commissioners will hear tonight. The organization is currently facing a deficit of nearly $15,000 this year and has outlined several…
HOLLYWOOD— Margaritaville, the long-anticipated resort expected to revive tourism along Hollywood’s beach, is still on track, says the developer. Lon Tabatchnick gave commissioners a brief update Wednesday on his $138 million project, promising to meet the city’s April 10 deadline to get construction permits and work out a financing plan. The 350-room, 17-story resort would…
ST. PETERSBURG — Taped to a downtown building that once housed the office of the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg is a document that could stall a multimillion-dollar redevelopment project. The cease-and-desist stipulation posted at 25 Second St. N has halted, at least temporarily, work to demolish an old hotel that would make way…
SAFETY HARBOR – City commissioners have postponed a vote on a controversial apartment and retail development and told the developer to scale back the project. Residents packed the Safety Harbor City Commission chambers Monday night to weigh in on the project, slated to be built on the old Firmenich Citrus Center property – now, a…
