CRAs as Economic Engines
CRAs as Economic Engines
Fort Myers Downtown Streetscape Wins International Making Cities Livable Award
Fort Myers Downtown Streetscape Wins International Making Cities Livable Award FORT MYERS, Fla. (May 24, 2012) – On May 22, 2012, the Fort Myers Downtown Streetscape project won the 2012 International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) Walkable Neighborhoods award at the IMCL conference in Portland, Oregon. The City of Fort Myers ranked first over other cities…
CNU Conference Blog Notes
One of Tindale Oliver’s urban designers, Erin Chantry, will be reporting live from CNU20: The New World that is taking place in West Palm Beach, Florida. Attending as a member of the press, she will be writing a series on the importance of integrating transportation, land use, and urban design. It will be based on…
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Panama City CRA News
Panama City CRA News On Thursday, April 19th, 2012- City leaders celebrated Ink Trax’s grand opening with an after hours block party. “Driving through downtown a year before I got elected, I was thinking about revitalization and this just kind of gives me goose bumps. This is what it’s all about. This is what the…
Manatee County CRAs Are Busy
Manatee County CRAs Are Busy By: John Rehill, Bradenton Times BRADENTON — At Manatee’s South County and Midtown CRA’s, success is shining through. The plans have taken root and the results are even better than expected. Midtown is the star of success, and South county is coming up not far behind. That’s what happens when…
Margate CRA Regulates Car Repair Shops
Margate CRA Regulates Car Repair Shops By: Alyssa Cutter, Sun-Sentinel Pawnshops and car repair stores are now banned from Margate’s Community Redevelopment Agency. The city commission passed the ordinance after determining the area had enough of both types of businesses and decided to close it. The existing 81 car repair shops and nine pawnshops will…
Top Redevelopment Clips: Sunrise Redevelopment, Tampa, Belleview Biltmore, Jacksonville
Sunrise making push for redevelopment Something as simple as freshly painted entry signs can help rejuvenate the city’s eastern neighborhoods. Other projects on the city’s wish list, such as a world-class medical complex that would bring jobs and tax revenues, might be more difficult to accomplish. During a workshop, Sunrise officials discussed ways to encourage…
Pioneer descendant forming foundation to help maintain St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront parks
Pioneer descendant forming foundation to help maintain St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront parks ST. PETERSBURG — The city’s downtown waterfront parks are a gem. Actually, says Phil Graham Jr. with conviction, they’re St. Petersburg’s most important asset. The descendant of one of the city’s earliest settlers and landscape architect of the new Dalí Museum has come…
Sunrise to talk redevelopment at Tuesday workshop
Sunrise to talk redevelopment at Tuesday workshop SUNRISE—Commissioners are encouraging residents, business owners and landlords to attend a 6 p.m. workshop Tuesday to help them brainstorm ways to redevelop the city’s neighborhoods and commercial areas. The meeting will be at City Hall, 10770 W. Oakland Park Blvd. Last week, commissioners approved a new incentive program…
Turning blight into a destination
Turning blight into a destination Hillsborough County Commissioner Victor Crist’s “Innovation Destination” plan may be ambitious, even grandiose, but it offers a promising way to revive blighted neighborhoods in Tampa and Hillsborough County. He plans to discuss the proposal at Wednesday’s commission meeting. Some areas within the community development district would be designated for tax…
CRA submits downtown vision plan
CRA submits downtown vision plan The vision for South Cape is for it to be a community within a community.That includes streets cut out and defined by their look and character and destinations for people to stop and look around with an emphasis on four quadrants around Cape Coral Parkway. That area would be called…