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.…
DetailsBOYNTON 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.…
DetailsBONITA SPRINGS, Fla. – Plans for a rebooted downtown Bonita Springs have reached another crucial milestone. Read full article
DetailsDAYTONA 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…
DetailsWe 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…
DetailsLeesburg’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…
DetailsMANATEE 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…
DetailsWEST 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…
DetailsTwo 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…
DetailsMANATEE 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…
DetailsDELAND — 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…
DetailsOpportunity 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…
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