City of Winter Garden Launches Website Dedicated to its Historic Downtown WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – The City of Winter Garden has launched a website to serve as an official online guide to its historic downtown. The website, www.downtownwg.com, highlights the attributes of the downtown area and the city and serves as a resource for residents,…
NEWS: The Pompano Beach CRA is proud to announce their new marketing campaign, “Love Always, Pompano Beach.” The all-encompassing annual program will feature local businesses located in the East CRA District, sharing special offers and experiences to attract residents and non-residents alike. The campaign kicks off with “Sunset Sips,” showcasing promotions from local restaurants. Following…
November 4th 2020 – National Research Center (NRC) at Polco and the International City & County Management Association (ICMA) have announced 10 Winners of the Voice of the People (VOP) Awards for Excellence. The Voice of the People Awards are the only national awards that honor local governments based on survey opinions and feedback from…
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – The City of Winter Garden, in collaboration with the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, has received a grant of $20,000 from the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Resources to conduct a survey of structures located within Downtown Winter Garden’s commercial and residential Historic Districts. A selection of sites located outside…
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. — The City of Winter Garden has launched a Love Local campaign to build awareness of the importance of supporting the local business community as well as providing programs and activities to help small businesses recover from financial losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Love Local campaign includes a number of…
SEBRING — The Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency will be taking the final step today to set into motion a six month project to update the CRA’s Master Plan. At its meeting at 5:30 p.m. today the CRA Board will consider approving a $107,270 contract with S&ME, Inc., which will develop the updated Master Plan. The…
DELRAY BEACH – The city Housing Authority is moving ahead with plans for the Island Cove apartment project near the intersection of Southwest Eighth Street and Southwest 12th Avenue in Delray Beach. The authority, in light of the pandemic, changed its plans. It had been expecting to build 54 townhomes on the 3-acre site that would have sold for as much…
As a result of the declared emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ruth Clavell received from the City of Homestead and the Homestead Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) a grant established to help small businesses, which, like hers, had to close when the pandemic started and the city decided to go on lockdown in March. The…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) are co-hosting a webinar on supporting small business and economic development in rural Florida. The webinar will showcase rural small business, economic development and redevelopment resources; highlight the needs in state-designated rural areas; and explore government programs that provide…
n Monday, Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) Sec. Jonathan Satter announced almost $860,000 in grant awards to Citrus, Franklin, Gulf, Jackson, Sumter, Walton, and Washington Counties through the E911 State Grant Program. Since January, DMS has awarded more than $6 million in funds to Florida counties to modernize Florida’s public safety communications systems. “The E911 State Grant…
TAMPA – For years, Tampa city officials have struggled to find a way to keep pedestrians safe as its downtown core draws more people. It’s a conundrum that’s consistently landed Tampa near the top of national rankings among the deadliest cities for pedestrians and bicyclists. But Tampa artist Meaghan Farrell Scalise and the Tampa Downtown…
The City of Homestead and the Homestead Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) have launched three programs designed to help residents and businesses that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The City of Homestead CDBG Rent & Utilities Assistance Grant Program (the “Program”) is designed to provide residents who reside within the incorporated City of Homestead…
A bill making its way through City Council seeks to boost historic redevelopment in the North Core and throughout Downtown. Two Council committees are scheduled next week to debate Ordinance 2020-0527 expanding city programs that offer incentives for the renovation and redevelopment of historic properties and old Downtown properties. The Downtown Investment Authority board approved…
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.) — NEWS: Pompano Beach residents are encouraged to attend a special presentation about the McNab House & Botanical Gardens during a virtual Pompano Beach CRA meeting on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 1 p.m. The presentation will introduce Randy Hollingworth, Director of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Urban Design from the award-winning, international…
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) is reminding communities that the deadline to submit applications to the Rebuild Florida Mitigation General Infrastructure Program is 5:00 p.m. (EST) on Monday, September 14, 2020. The Rebuild Florida Mitigation General Infrastructure Program is designed to provide funding opportunities for counties, municipalities and state agencies to develop large-scale…
The National League of Cities has highlighted ways that municipalities can lift up the awareness of the CARES Act funding for black communities and overall, but the data shows more work needs to be done. Are your residents among the estimated twelve million people in the United States who did not receive their stimulus monies? According to the…
Mayors from across the country are calling on Congress and the White House to return to the negotiating table and deliver critical aid to local governments in the next COVID-19 relief package. While Congress is in recess, mayors from cities large and small are continuing to confront unprecedented budget crunches due to revenue shortfalls and…
In case you missed it, EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization sponsored a webinar on Resource Roadmapping for Revitalization: Tools for Leveraging Funding & Other Resources for Brownfields & Land Revitalization on July 21. This webinar for EPA brownfield grantees and local community leaders presented on the “resource roadmapping” approach that can be used…
2021 Request for Applications Application Due Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 by 11:59 PM Eastern Time EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. A brownfield site is defined as real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida League of Cities, the united voice for Florida’s municipal governments, yesterday announced the election of its officers for the 2020-2021 term. The officers were elected and installed during the association’s annual business meeting held virtually this afternoon. City of Orlando Commissioner Antonio “Tony” Ortiz was elected president of the Florida League of Cities,…
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that the Florida legislature will fund $10 million toward hundreds of families to rebuild or purchase homes in the Panhandle following the disaster of 2018′s Category 5 Hurricane Michael. The Florida Housing Finance Corporation will relaunch, for the second year, its Hurricane Michael recovery loan program. The program is to…