SARASOTA – Developer Civix LLC has proposed building a 150-room hotel at Main Street and U.S. 301, a lodging property that, if completed, will be the first downtown in nearly a decade. But to do so, Civix would first have to swap the Sarasota County-owned parking lot at that corner with a nearby site now…
DetailsBOCA RATON The city’s downtown has fewer than 4,000 residents, and some say that’s not yet enough to support the businesses along East Palmetto Park Road, the city’s main thoroughfare. So the idea now is to increase the number of residents to help stamp out the bloom of vacancy signs in the heart of the…
DetailsEmpty storefronts, a common sight during and after the Great Recession, are a thing of the past on Park Avenue. Retail space along the city of Winter Park’s well-known shopping street is fully leased for the first time in more than 25 years, according to Winter Park Land Co. An Ethan Allen retail-design center will…
DetailsDAYTONA BEACH — Bringing big hotel and retail developments to the beachfront used to take a big taxpayer investment. And that money was supposed to accomplish big goals: revive the beachside, attract tourists with more money to burn and draw conventions to the Ocean Center. Those goals are still there today — as big as…
DetailsMainStreet DeLand Association has found its successor for the executive director who is leaving the organization June 15. Beginning July 1, D. Wayne Carter will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mary Beth Harris, who is relocating to South Florida with her family. Carter was selected from 12 “qualified candidates,” said Savannah-Jane Griffin,…
DetailsAmeriCorps and Habitat seek to revitalize Pensacola neighborhood Habitat for Humanity staff and AmeriCorps volunteers kicked off the 2013 AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon in Pensacola today, a week of community development projects in the Westside Garden District Neighborhood in Pensacola.About 80 AmeriCorps volunteers from across the country along with about 20 Pensacola Habitat for Humanity volunteers and…
DetailsCouncil prepares ballot for Aquarium expansion The City of Clearwater gave the Clearwater Marine Aquarium its current facility on Island Estates. Now, CMA wants to build a $160 million facility on the downtown waterfront property currently occupied by city hall. It is negotiating up to a 60-year lease, and this time, it is not a…
DetailsMarion County Commission approves Silver Springs CRA County commissioners on Tuesday created a special tax district intended to bolster the appearance and economic appeal of Silver Springs. The board voted unanimously to establish a Community Redevelopment Area, or CRA, a roughly 4,100-acre zone around Silver Springs wherein new tax revenues will be banked to build…
DetailsMaximizing potential for Milton’s riverfront Efforts to maximize the potential of downtown Milton and the entire western bank of the Blackwater River are headed to a new level. The City of Milton in partnership with the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council has hired Peter J. Smith & Co., a consultant from Buffalo, N.Y., to…
DetailsUptown Delray could be next residential project in city’s downtown Live, work, play: It’s the mantra of developers wanting to build in downtown Delray Beach. Uptown Delray, a project proposed on Southeast Second Street two blocks south of Atlantic Avenue, wants in on the excitement. The City Commission will consider the project Tuesday at its…
DetailsSuburbia is now home to the largest and fastest growing poor population in the country and more than half of the metropolitan poor. Yet the place-based antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. Confronting Suburban Poverty in America paints a new picture of poverty in the United…
DetailsDelray CRA offers land for development If you’re a developer with a creative project in mind, the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency may be looking for you. The agency recently announced it is looking for development proposals for a 5.5-acre property it owns on the south side of West Atlantic Avenue, between Southwest Sixth and…
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