The City of New Port Richey, FL invites interested qualified parties to submit qualifications and proposals in response to RFP15-004 Hacienda Hotel Rehabilitation. This solicitation is to provide professional services for repair and rehabilitation of the Historic Hacienda Hotel located at 5621 Main Street, New Port Richey FL 34652. This project is funded through a…
DetailsThe City of New Port Richey invites interested qualified parties to submit sealed quotations and proposals in response to RFQP 15-003 Hacienda Hotel Condition Assessment. This solicitation is to provide professional services to complete a Hacienda Hotel Condition Assessment and Florida Master Site File Update. The subject property is located at 5621 Main Street, New…
DetailsHAINES CITY | City commissioners on Tuesday night approved spending about $214,000 more for the Sixth Street Streetscape Project. The project, which will now cost $1.5 million, starts on Hinson Avenue and extends south to Wood Avenue. It includes landscaping, new and improved sidewalks, and related road and drainage improvements. The increase is because construction…
DetailsThe Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency board will meet tonight at 6:30 p.m. One of the main topics the board will discuss is 500 Ocean, the commercial/residential project to be built at Ocean Avenue and Federal Highway. The City Commission, which makes up five of the seven CRA board seats, approved the project in July.…
DetailsPensacola business man Robert Switzer has agreed to buy the corner in downtown Pensacola at Garden, Palafox, Romana and Baylen streets from Durnford Enterprises Ltd. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Details of Switzer’s plans for the property weren’t immediately available, but he said the leases of all businesses that are currently tenants of…
DetailsDowntown record shop Arrow’s Aim will re-open in a new location Wednesday with three times the space for vinyl. The growth of Arrow’s Aim proves that a culture of allegiance to small, local businesses thrives downtown, owner Daniel Halal said. Its neighbors include the Harvest Thyme Cafe, The Wooly event space, The Top restaurant and…
DetailsZEPHYRHILLS — Betty Kennedy has been named the new executive director of Main Street Zephyrhills, Inc., following the resignation of Gina Granger, whose last day was Tuesday. This is a second stint for Kennedy, who served as Main Street Zephyrhills executive director from October 1999 to June 2001. Among her accomplishments: She presided over getting Zephyrhills…
DetailsTAMPA — Downtown projects generate the most cash and grab the headlines, but Tampa’s redevelopment efforts outside the urban core also face a key vote this week. After about a year of negotiation, Tampa and Hillsborough County officials propose to renew all of the city’s existing “community redevelopment areas,” plus create a new one. County…
DetailsDelray Beach brought about a revival of its downtown earlier than most Florida cities. Now the area south of Atlantic Avenue, which was slower to catch on than the land north of Atlantic, is gaining momentum. Read full article
DetailsFORT MYERS, Fla. – The Lee County Commission Tuesday pledged up to $4 million to rehab Harborside Event Center in downtown Fort Myers, a project that Mayor Randy Henderson said will be an economic catalyst for the city and region when complete by 2017. Read full article
DetailsIt might be the biggest thing to happen in downtown Miami since Henry Flagler brought his railroad south and created downtown Miami. And it’s happening sooner than you might think, on the same long-vacant acreage where Flagler built his little Miami train depot more than a century ago. No longer just a concept, All Aboard…
DetailsThe Miami City Commission unanimously approved plans for a downtown convention center and 1,800-room hotel Thursday on the site of the old Miami Arena. The commission’s approval of MDM Development’s $600 million Marriott Marquis Miami World Center clears an important hurdle for the developer, which can now pursue permits and tax rebates, and push to…
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