Good News From Florida’s CRAs

DEO seeking proposals for community planning technical assistance grants

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 17, 2016

For Immediate Release: May 17, 2016 Contact: DEO Communications, 850.245.7110, media@deo.myflorida.com DEO SEEKING PROPOSALS FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) is seeking proposals for Community Planning Technical Assistance grants from communities across Florida. The purpose of the grants is to assist counties and municipalities in…

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FDIC and OCC to host listening session for bank examiners in Highland City

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 17, 2016

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) are hosting a listening session for bank examiners. The listening session is a group discussion between local community-based organizations and FDIC and OCC Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) examiners and community affairs staff. The goal is to help the examiners…

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Santa Rosa Commish urged to weigh courthouse alternative

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 14, 2016

Leading up to a recent decision to build a futureSanta Rosa County judicial center in downtown Milton, Property Appraiser Greg Brown presented a case to commissioners for a different site on U.S. 90 — one he says is an opportunity to reduce the burden on taxpayers. Brown sent a letter Feb. 3 to all five County Commissioners…

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Boynton redevelopment agency to hear from new citizen advisory board members

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 13, 2016

Boynton Beach’s redevelopment agency will for the first time Tuesday hear about its newly created citizen advisory board’s progress. In October, the city voted to change the makeup of its redevelopment agency board. It’s now made up of the city’s five commission members, a change from its former composition of five commissioners and two independent…

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Redevelopment slow to follow UF’s growing East Campus

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 13, 2016

There are no classes taught at the University of Florida’s East Campus along Waldo Road. Instead, the majority of the 450 or so employees working in the complex of brick buildings behind a wrought iron fence handle mostly administrative duties. Departments such as payroll, Web and data services were moved here to free up room…

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Miami’s landmark Babylon Apartments, first Arquitectonica building, faces demolition

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 12, 2016

Nearly 40 years ago, the young architects in a new, untested Miami firm got their first chance to prove their commercial mettle with a devilishly tricky commission: To design an apartment building on a Brickell lot so long and skinny it’s like a sliver of pie cut by a dessert lover on a diet. The…

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Fate of Riverside Wharf on Miami River up to voters

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 11, 2016

Retailers and real estate developers are sold on the eastern leg of the Miami River as an up-and-coming culinary and entertainment destination on the verge of a break-through. But are voters? That’s a key question leading up to the March 15 election, when developers Alex Mantecon and Guillermo Vadell will learn whether plans to build…

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Housing, retail aim for UCF downtown

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 11, 2016

A new development group expects to file plans for student housing, apartments and retail as soon as this month to complement the proposed downtown campus of theUniversity of Central Florida. A partnership of Premiere-Nelson Group Inc., Unicorp National Developments Inc., T-Rex Capital Group LLC and Jupiter Realty expect to submit the plans for living and shopping quarters that would complement the…

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Major projects rising in downtown Miami, report says

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 10, 2016

Downtown Miami continues to grow. Developers broke ground Thursday on Miami Worldcenter and Paramount, the mixed-use development’s signature residential tower, according to The Miami Herald. The 27-acre development at 10th Street and NE Second Avenue will include retail, hotel and residences. The Worldcenter launch came just two weeks after the groundbreaking for Canvas, at 90 NE…

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Cape Coral CRA soliciting Special Event Sponsorship Grant applications for Fiscal Year 2017

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 10, 2016

The Cape Coral Community Redevelopment Agency is seeking applications for Special Events Sponsorship Grants. The program, which CRA officials say is designed to help support efforts to bring more people to the South Cape, would supply “small monetary grants” next fiscal year to “organizations and businesses whose events directly serve the citizens and visitors of…

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Brownsville revitalization hinges on jobs

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 9, 2016

Building by building, block by block and street by street. That’s Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May’s long-term plan for the revitalization of Pensacola’s Brownsville neighborhood. May grew up in the Morris Courts projects and still lives in Brownsville. He wants the poverty eradicated and the reputation for drugs, prostitution and crime to be a thing of the past. But…

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Buyers unveil plans for Harder Hall – Sebring, FL

Redevelopment NewsBy FRAstaff March 9, 2016

SEBRING — The buyer of Harder Hall plans to maintain the visual focal point of its tower when transforming the historic hotel into a facility that serves the elderly, an architect said Monday night. Greg Jacoby, the architect for the project, told Sebring City Council members that the buyer will maintain many of the historic aspects…

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