MOUNT DORA — Residents can learn details of the third phase of the downtown-streetscape project at a meeting at 6 p.m. Monday. The joint meeting of the City Council and the Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Committee will be held in the Donnelly Park Building. Read full article
DetailsBOYNTON BEACH — A retail and residential development was approved for the corner of Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue in Boynton Beach months ago, but the land remains vacant. Negotiations of a financial agreement between the Boynton Community Redevelopment Agency and the project’s developer has held back any progress. That’s expected to change Tuesday, when the…
DetailsPLANT CITY — Postal officials have decided that the downtown post office, closed since 2013 due to safety issues, should be shuttered permanently. The U.S. Postal Service cited “dire economic times” in making the call to close the nearly 80-year-old landmark at 301 W. Reynolds St. A postal regulatory commission has until Feb. 27 to file…
DetailsLauderdale Lakes has apparently avoided another financial crisis — one that would have been of the commission’s own making. The city averted bankruptcy in 2011 through agreements that have been allowing it to pay $11.7 million in debt to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency over an extended number of years.…
DetailsA service that has grown popular in downtown Delray Beach for offering free rides with its fleet of electric carts is considering expanding to a new location: downtown Boca. Since 2012, the Delray Downtowner has given rides to passengers across a two-mile radius of Delray’s downtown for free, except for what the passengers would like to tip the…
DetailsBoynton Beach‘s redevelopment agency will discuss 500 Ocean, a development city officials say is critical to sparking growth downtown. Tuesday, the agency will discuss the next step in bringing the estimated $4.5 million development to the southwest corner of Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue. The item was delayed in December while the developer sought money…
DetailsLake Worth, FL; February 12, 2015 – The Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and Community Partners (also known as Housing Partnership Inc.) were recently awarded $500,000 in catalytic grant funds for neighborhood and community improvements in Lake Worth. The CRA and Community Partners partnered in 2014 to apply for these competitive funds to be…
DetailsNorth Miami’s community redevelopment agency is still working to extend its life beyond 2016 and the board took some steps toward that goal at their last meeting. The city council, acting as the CRA board, approved a redevelopment plan and schedule, discussed the CRA’s budget and decided against hiring a new executive director. The city…
DetailsPORT ST. LUCIE — A divided City Council voted Monday to enter into exclusive negotiations with a Jupiter businessman and Treasure Coast land developer to sell the former Digital Domain building for $15 million. James Hall, by a 3-2 vote, earned the right to buy the 115,000-square-foot building in Tradition. Read full article
DetailsSTUART — Redevelopment of city-owned property, stalled since 2013, could be moving forward. Read full article
DetailsThe Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency’s attorney will announce his resignation tonight. He is pursuing another job. Ken Spillias will be working for Ocean Ridge as the town’s attorney. Spillias, who works at the firm Lewis, Longman and Walker, has worked as the town’s attorney since 1999, but as an outside contractor, according to town…
DetailsThe recent debate about Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRAs) appears to be an effort to mislead the public into believing that their tax dollars are being misused. This isn’t the case, and this inflammatory rhetoric, which pits residents against each other, can be extremely harmful to communities. It has been alleged that “some of South Florida’s…
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