Temple Terrace: Town center developer defaulting on agreement TEMPLE TERRACE – City leaders and a developer of a $150 million downtown district project are having trouble seeing eye-to-eye. While Vlass Temple Terrace officials suggest it may be time to pull out of the project, city leaders said this week they are still waiting for construction…
DetailsBonita bosses pitch to create downtown Community Redevelopment Area The Lee County commission decided Monday to hold a public hearing at an upcoming regular meeting on whether to delegate authority to Bonita Springs to create a downtown Community Redevelopment Area. Bonita officials propose spending $15.6 million to spur business activity — $8.3 million for a…
DetailsMainStreet DeLand director leaving It will be a bittersweet parting for Mary Beth Harris, when she leaves her job this summer as executive director of the MainStreet DeLand Association. Harris notified the organization’s board of directors May 3 that her family would be moving to Punta Gorda, after her husband, Ty Harris, accepted a job…
DetailsOviedo moves toward major facelift by creating new urban center By Dave Weber, Orlando Sentinel OVIEDO — Sprawling suburban neighborhoods define Oviedo today, but city officials are looking toward a new, urban image for tomorrow. A well-planned jumble of multi-story commercial and retail buildings would rise in several densely developed city centers. Except for the…
DetailsMost taxes from Bay Medical will go to CRA By ZACK McDONALD / The News Herald Published: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 22:21 PM. PANAMA CITY — Adding Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Health System to the county’s tax roll will generate more than a million dollars in tax revenue for local governments next year.…
DetailsAffordable Housing Funding Programs – Get $120 Million from Foreclosure Settlement The House unanimously passed SB 1852 this week, spending $200 million that is part of a multistate settlement with five large banks for fraudulent foreclosure practices. The package contains spending on affordable housing programs favored by the Senate, and funding for Habitat for Humanity…
DetailsSpace Florida News Read the full news articles here. On April 22, Space Florida hosted a public workshop to educate 50+ stakeholders and garner feedback from those interested in proposing projects for the organization’s Spaceport Master Plan. The plan, compiled every two to three years, provides information to guide Space Florida in its efforts to…
DetailsCRAs get creative: Improving the aesthetics of the everyday By Rachel Galvin Art is about more than just painting on a canvas, a photograph in a frame or a sculpture in a museum; it is about the beauty in our daily lives. Everything from the landscaping to the architecture around us can be considered art. The…
Detailsth!nk Technologies Group Powered by LSeven is one of a growing number of technology firms setting up shop downtown, creating a high-tech hub in Ocala’s central core. “We love it downtown,” said Matthew Villella who, along with partner Christopher Oleson, moved the company to 101 NE First Ave. five months ago. “You have a corridor,…
DetailsTampa’s West Shore area has the largest concentration of office space in Florida — and the cold and congested environment to prove it. Nobody thinks of the area as a place to walk, bicycle or sit at a sidewalk cafe. But that could change in the years ahead under a master plan being put forward…
DetailsSEBRING – The Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency will host speaker Marjorie Ferrer, executive director for the Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority and an expert on downtown revitalization and redevelopment, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Jack R. Stroup Civic Center. As executive director for the Delray Beach DDA since 1993, Ferrer has spearheaded the revitalization…
DetailsThe future of the city’s ambitious Midtown project, a proposed residential and commercial district on 85 acres south of downtown, got a boost this week when legislators approved a bill to help cities considering urban renewal projects tackle stormwater runoff issues more easily. The legislation approved unanimously in the Florida House on Tuesday and three…
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