Campers of the Boynton Beach summer camp program suited up with their snorkels and fins to take a dip beneath the earth’s surface to discover the underworld mysteries of the deep blue sea. This initiative called Project Seahorse was created when co-founders Dan Volker and Jim Abernathy saw families visiting Blue Heron Bridge. “There would…
DetailsDEERFIELD BEACH Once a hotspot for gambling and bootlegging, a city park accessible only through a condominium parking lot has begun its transformation into a hub for enjoying the city’s Intracoastal Waterway. Sullivan Park, once the site of the notorious Riverview Restaurant that legend has Al Capone frequenting, is on a frontage road tucked between…
DetailsDepot Park lives up to the hype. The 32-acre project has been billed as being Gainesville’s own Central Park. Depot Park is supposed to serve as a showcase for all our community offers in terms of nature, culture and innovation. It took decades of planning, years of cleanup and millions of dollars to get there,…
DetailsA STOREFRONT-SATURATED STRIP WITH A sketchy past is poised to put the Lake Park Arts District on the map as a hip hub of culture. Ten years after the town targeted the area as an economic liability and created a Community Redevelopment Agency to reverse the red, the threeblock stretch of Park Avenueappears to be prospering. “When I came to Lake…
DetailsMayor Bob Buckhorn and the City of Tampa, Florida, broke ground this week on the redevelopment of Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park designed by Denver urban design and landscape architecture firm Civitas with W Architecture and Landscape Architecture of New York. Mayor Buckhorn manned a trackhoe, digging into the dirt of the 23-acre site on the banks…
DetailsThe past will be a part of the city’s future downtown development, city officials say. The city commission on Monday said it would only consider development proposals that keep all or part of the historic high school at Town Square, which includes City Hall, the library and the downtown police and fire stations. Saving the…
DetailsMyth No. 1: Our downtown just needs one “big ticket” development to turn things around. “Rarely does a ‘quick fix’ really repair a downtown over the long haul… Downtowns that have reversed their downward spirals… have typically done so incrementally, through numerous small steps over time.” Jacksonville has practiced this idea for decades and it…
DetailsUrban sprawl has several definitions. In general, it is considered the spreading out of new development onto land adjacent to existing development. Sprawl is said to occur when low-density developments are created around cities away from where people have traditionally shopped, worked, played and studied, thus creating a need for transportation between homes and activities.…
DetailsThe extra green space on the site where Florida Hospital Waterman once stood is nice, city leaders admit. But now, with the economy percolating again, Eustis officials have decided it’s time to make a concerted effort with the property’s owners to sell the 4.8 acres for commercial and residential development to boost the city’s tax…
DetailsThe past will be a part of the city’s future downtown development, city officials say. The city commission on Monday said it would only consider development proposals that keep all or part of the historic high school at Town Square, which includes City Hall, the library and the downtown police and fire stations. Saving the…
DetailsAs the redevelopment of the Sarasota Quay property inches closer, the future of the 1925 Belle Haven building, just over the fence from the vacant former Quay site and from the Hyatt Regency hotel, will come into focus. In the Belle Haven, developer GreenPointe Holdings of Jacksonville has the opportunity to find a new use…
DetailsA Coconut Grove theater steeped in history from Miami’s segregation era has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places, paving the way for redevelopment, sources told The Real Deal. The ACE Theatre at 3664 Grand Avenue was added on June 13, according to the register’s website. The historic designation means the owner, ACE…
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