ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay Rays may not be banking on an influx of residents and activity in the westward expansion of downtown, but a developer and grocer see it and are getting ready. ARC Group is planning a 50,000-square-foot retail center with a 32,000-square-foot grocery store for 700 Central Ave. There will be…
Daytona Beach and the surrounding community are right to think big when it comes to economic development. Attracting shiny new hotels and high-end retailers, condominium complexes and other multi-million-dollar projects would inject much-needed capital into this area and raise its public profile. But to succeed, officials need to focus on the smaller, disheveled things first.…
It’s difficult to imagine that Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach was once one of the most dangerous streets in South Florida. Today, it attracts flocks of diners and shoppers just about every night. It has recently set retail real estate sales records. But in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was mired in blight. Plenty…
Ocean Breeze East, a vital development to jump-starting the revitalization of the Heart of Boynton neighborhood, is back to the drawing board. Ocean Breeze East is the second phase of a Heart of Boynton redevelopment project, which includes retail space, a medical office, office space and 200 rental units on a 4.5-acre lot on the…
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — The Brannon Center, a 50-year-old building that has served as the city’s prime place to hold large meetings and social functions, is scheduled to be torn down beginning next month. Demolition of the Riverside Drive building, which was originally used as a city library, is targeted for May 14 and would…
INVERNESS — Inverness City Manager Frank DiGiovanni presented to city council members at their budget workshop Monday estimates of how much money an expanded community redevelopment area (CRA) would bring in for the city. The revenue ranged from $747,082 to $3.6 million. Read full article
The Bight Management District Board has agreed to hand over $1.3 million from its reserves to the growing construction budget for the new City Hall in Key West — now pegged at $18.8 million. The vote Wednesday evening was 4-2 in favor. A tie vote would have meant the motion failed. The seven-member board is…
CRYSTAL RIVER — Crystal River officials were happy with what is moving forward as the city’s inner district plan for the future. Board members of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency — all sitting city council members — voted Monday to push a revised CRA plan through to the planning committee for further review and approval.…
BOYNTON BEACH — Two new restaurants are coming to Boynton Beach’s Ocean Avenue. The Boynton Community Redevelopment Agency board Tuesday night chose master pizza chef Sal Campanile to buy both the Oscar Magnuson house and Ruth Jones cottage. He will open The Little Pizza Shack in the Ruth Jones cottage at 480 E. Ocean Ave.…
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. – Plans for a rebooted downtown Bonita Springs have reached another crucial milestone. Read full article
DAYTONA BEACH — The Beach Street riverfront, the corridor that was home to the city’s earliest businesses and homes, and for several decades was the town’s main retail hub, could be entering a new era. City commissioners unanimously decided at their meeting Wednesday night to go after $432,353 in grants that will pay for design…
We are pleased to provide you with the 2014 edition of the Florida Bicycle and Pedestrian Partnership Council’s Annual Report. The Florida Bicycle and Pedestrian Partnership Council was established in 2010 as a statewide initiative on bicycle and pedestrian mobility to make policy recommendations to partner agencies and organizations throughout Florida on walking, bicycling and…
Leesburg’s downtown Main Street Streetscape Project is near completion and Main Street will be open in time for Bikefest beginning on April p:BC BCJ Body Copy RR drop cap 24, City Manager Al Minner said Tuesday.p:BC BCJ Body Copy RR drop cap “It is probably 85 to 90 percent complete,” Minner said. “We are pretty…
MANATEE COUNTY – As it revises its land use rules to encourage urban redevelopment, the Manatee County Commission says it will make five “corridors” its priority areas: Manatee Avenue, Cortez Road, 53rd Avenue, 15th Street East and the Tamiami Trail. Next, county planners will select three actual sites available for redevelopment, such as vacant lots…
WEST PALM BEACH — The City Commission approved a measure Monday to encourage construction of office towers downtown, to address a shortage of top-flight office space and avoid companies going elsewhere. The measure, approved unanimously, is an amendment to the city’s zoning and development regulations that would create an incentive for construction of Class A…
Two historic homes on Boynton Beach‘s Ocean Avenue could soon become homes to some of the city’s newest businesses. Tuesday, board members will discuss at the city’s redevelopment agency meeting which businesses will inhabit the Magnuson House, at 211 Ocean Ave., and The Ruth Jones cottage, at 480 Ocean Ave. The Magnuson House is one…
MANATEE COUNTY – A few years ago, a committee for the Manatee Chamber of Commerce conducted an exercise to see if Manatee County’s land development code is conducive to urban redevelopment. Clifford Walters, an attorney who chaired the Infill Committee when it performed the case study, said its members determined that “all the complexities and…
DELAND — Volusia County will consider a broad policy in the future that would repeal community redevelopment areas if cities choose to discriminate against county residents by charging them for parking. The County Council Thursday was set to consider a resolution that would have repealed New Smyrna Beach’s two CRAs in response to a weeks-long…
Opportunity has bypassed much of south St. Petersburg, leaving many largely African-American neighborhoods coping with unemployment, run-down housing and crime. Now city officials have proposed an innovative tax strategy to fight stagnation with job training and public subsidies for private businesses and property owners. It has the potential to help transform the area, and City…
This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is issued in accordance with Florida Statutes Section 163.380 by the Bradenton Downtown Development Authority (the “DDA”). The objective of this RFQ process is to ascertain the most qualified interest for the creation of an appropriate and sustainable private, mixed-use redevelopment of properties owned by the DDA. The successful respondent…
Give them a place to park and they will come. City commissioners on Tuesday will consider paying for a 609-space parking garage to serve what they hope will be a revitalized beachside. But this is not going to be any ordinary parking garage, rather it will be framed by three-story sails. It’s the next step…