Downtown: Congratulations to many in downtown area It was a full house at the COA River House May 30 when friends, fans and co-workers gathered to honor Cathy Brown as she handed over the reins to the new COA director Becky Yanni. Laughter and good cheer were the order of the day as Joe Boles…
DetailsBonita Springs swaps CRA quest for Lee County cash Downtown Bonita Springs could start getting drainage and parking improvements next year. City Manager Carl Schwing met with Lee County staff Wednesday to work on creating an interlocal agreement to redevelop Bonita’s downtown. “They’re going to contribute as if we had a tax-increment financing agreement without…
DetailsLake Worth CRA creating Neighborhood Enhancement Team LAKE WORTH — The Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency will hold an organizational meeting Wednesday for the Neighborhood Ehancement Team — residents who are interested in improving the neighborhoods west of Dixie Highway. Wednesday’s meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in the shuffleboard building, 1121 Lucerne Ave.…
DetailsChannelside tenants bracing for long, slow summer Summer is always slow for many businesses at Channelside Bay Plaza. Most of the cruise ships are gone. Hockey is over, and the concert schedule is light at the Tampa Bay Times Forum next door. With the retail complex’s future still uncertain, this year will be even more…
DetailsUnhappy Broward commissioners want more control over city CRAs Broward County commissioners vowed to seek changes in state law to give them more oversight over municipal redevelopment agencies after learning they cannot audit alleged misspending by Hallandale Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency. “We want to get back some control from the state,” County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger…
DetailsCOMMUNITY GROUPS USE ART TO BEAUTIFY CONSTRUCTION FENCE The West Atlantic Redevelopment Coalition (WARC) and Milagro Center to install children’s artwork on fence banners of CRA-owned site DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), West Atlantic Redevelopment Coalition (WARC) and the Milagro Center will unveil a collaborative project of artistic fence…
DetailsSARASOTA – 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…
Details