TAMPA — In the years to come, downtown Tampa streets will be lined with retail storefronts. The city will have at least two grocery stores, more than a half-dozen parks and will be home to two more urban hotels. While plans to redevelop downtown Tampa are still years in the making, the local real estate…
DetailsYou can find huge red and white letters spelling “I Amsterdam” near the rear of the Dutch city’s Rijksmuseum. In Atlanta, 8-foot multicolored characters tell you’re in Midtown. By late 2017, Tallahassee will build on the oversized letter trend by welcoming a life-size monument of the #IHeartTally hashtag to the area of South Monroe Street…
DetailsA Moderncities.com comparison of 1943 and 2016 aerials illustrating the impact of expressways penetrating through various Jacksonville neighborhoods and districts. Read full article
DetailsThe original plan for a mural on the ocean-facing wall of Fat Kahuna’s Beachside Grille in Cocoa Beach called for a shark. However, Cocoa Beach, which provides matching funds for murals and other artistic beautification efforts, nixed the shark idea. While the city did want a beach/ocean motif, sharks were not the image Cocoa Beach…
DetailsLAKELAND — Claudia Tritton and other members of the Lakeland Economic Development Council recently met with some of the city’s largest employers. Part of the LEDC’s mission is to generate jobs and capital investment by attracting companies to the area and helping existing businesses expand. Tritton said one of the biggest takeaways from those recent…
DetailsDevelopment at the current pace could gobble up too much of Florida’s farmland and natural areas over the next half century, according to a report released Thursday. Suburbia threatens to cover nearly double the amount of land now claimed by neighborhoods and shopping centers, according to the Florida 2070 report. The study calls for allowing…
DetailsA local developer bought an Orlando Publix-anchored shopping plaza and now plans to invest millions in upgrades. Williamsburg Downs Investors LLC, an entity of Maitland-based Equinox Development Properties Inc., bought the Williamsburg Downs Publix-anchored plaza at 5350 Central Florida Pkwy. for nearly $14 million on Sept. 12. The plaza is less than 2 miles east…
DetailsJacksonville has well-documented blight issues: so well documented, in fact, there was a city council special committee to deal with that issue alone. Though legislation was passed earlier in 2016 regarding the city’s inventory of 436 tax-reverted parcels, the reality is that the number of properties with active liens on them dwarf that. Liens can…
DetailsThe Zona Village mixed-use project would bring apartments, retail, restaurants and office space near the South Florida Education Center multi-campus hub in Davie. Broward Collage, Florida Atlantic University, Nova Southeastern University, University of Florida and McFatter Technical College all have campuses in the area, so it’s a prime location to serve students, faculty and college…
DetailsThe groundbreaking was a decade in the making. On Tuesday, a boxed frame collected ceremonial concrete that was churned and smoothed. The inaugural foundation symbolizes the start of construction of Care Point Health and Wellness Center, which will stretch along an entire city block at South Monroe and Adams streets and Magnolia Drive. For the…
DetailsBoca Raton City Councilman Scott Singer filed Sept. 8 to run for his own seat, putting to rest rumors he might run for mayor against Mayor Susan Haynie, who has the chance to run again. Candidates have until January to file for the March 14 Municipal Election in Boca Raton. No one else has filed…
DetailsProposals are due Friday afternoon for a prime piece of city-owned real estate in the heart of downtown Tampa. The city has requested proposals for a surface parking lot at 405 E. Kennedy Blvd — a 1-acre city block that is north of Jackson Street, east of Florida Avenue, south of Kennedy Boulevard and west…
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