Holiday Park is expanding as a recreation hub for residents and their four-legged friends. Two new attractions are slated for the east side locale. The YMCA of South Florida plans to construct a new facility to serve the downtown community. And the city of Fort Lauderdale recently broke ground on a dog park. The proposed…
A 68-year-old, two-story apartment complex in Miami’s Little Haiti could be transformed with a zoning proposal allowing towers as tall as 28 stories and up to 5.42 million square feet of development. SPV Realty, managed by Sharon Olson in New York, hired Kobi Karp Architecture to craft a redevelopment plan for its 22.5-acre site at…
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.—Tavistock Development Co. has acquired Fort Lauderdale’s Pier 66 Marina and Hyatt Regency Hotel, a 127-slip mega-yacht marina and a 384-key hotel, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from the Blackstone Group for $163 million. Hyatt Regency Pier 66 in For Lauderdale, Fla. “Pier 66 has been an iconic waterfront property for decades, in an…
If offering the Shipyards property on East Bay Street for redevelopment was a good idea in 2015, expanding the offer to include the city’s riverfront property from the west boundary of the Shipyards all the way to the west property line of WJCT may be an even better idea. The Downtown Investment Authority board of…
TAMPA — Construction workers have been digging up the roads in downtown Tampa for months, marking the first steps toward building Strategic Property Partners’ $3 billion vision for the redevelopment of Tampa’s urban core. At its peak, nearly 100 workers are replacing old water and sewer pipes under the roads on Channelside Drive, Morgan and…
Fort Myers is one step closer to reaching its high-tech aspirations. And officials are moving fast to help transform the historic railroad depot into a regional technology hub in the heart of the city. During a special meeting on Monday afternoon, the city council voted 5-0 to approve a 40-year lease with the Southwest Florida…
Paper or plastic? It’s an option most shoppers have. But if one Florida house bill passes, that choice will be eliminated for coastal communities. “I think it’s a really good idea,” shopper Barbara Hubbard said. “We are using more and more paper bags and people are also getting the bags they use over and over.” House…
Even though homelessness in America’s cities continues to decline, food banks and pantries are still being stretched thin as the number of people seeking emergency food assistance climbs, according to a survey of mayors from 38 of the nation’s cities. The number of people seeking emergency food assistance increased by an average of 2% in…
The Orange Avenue Apartments may look to be in good condition. But the units are tiny and connected by an out-dated system of lead pipes that often burst when faucets are turned on. Redevelopment is overdue, according to the Tallahassee Housing Authority. Potential developers are being considered to create a master plan to bring new life…
100 of Central Florida’s most influential people weigh in with their own predictions for 2030. Read the predictions here.
Inevitably it seems that rivers are one of two things to a city: either a vital, vibrant artery stitching it historically together (think the Seine through Paris, the Sumida through Tokyo, or the Chicago River through the downtown Windy City), or an industrial, black water pipeline which, decade after decade, sacrifices a thriving, walkable waterfront…
Last year, Port Tampa Bay officials were excited to show off sleek, new designs featuring a $1.7 billion urban vision of a futuristic Channelside in downtown Tampa. Renderings showed 75-story high apartment and condo buildings surrounded by parks and a much bigger cruise terminal. But Thursday, Port Tampa Bay officials unveiled a farther-reaching master plan…
The city of Cocoa could see some serious upgrades in the coming months — not only to its streetscapes, but to its foodie and manufacturing scenes as well. A taco pub, a Texas-style barbecue restaurant, expansive Wal-Mart distribution center and Flying J gas station are among the most prominent additions coming to the city, said…
The Ybor City Development Corporation (YCDC) today announced the launch of a new, redesigned version of its website, www.yborcityonline.com, in addition to its new campaign, “More in Ybor.” The site was created to promote Tampa’s National Historic Landmark District’s growing assets, complimented by a catalog of stunning photographs taken by local photographer Gabriel Burgos. Key…
Construction is under way on a $5.6 million storm water project that will transform 8 acres in downtown Tavares into a park complete with wooden bridges and lush landscaping atop man-made ponds designed to treat storm water runoff before it discharges into Lake Dora. The stormwater treatment park, known as The Ruby Street Stormwater Improvement…
Don Paight, who led Fort Myers’ redevelopment efforts for the past three decades, has joined commercial real estate brokerage firm CRE Consultants. As executive director of the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency, Paight was instrumental in spurring nearly $1 billion worth of new private and public investment into the city’s downtown redevelopment area. Read the…
The city will reconsider its intent to revitalize Downtown along East Bay Street by adding more publicly owned real estate to its scope and nullifying a redevelopment proposal from Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan that was approved 19 months ago but never acted upon. At the request of the mayor’s office, the Downtown Investment Authority…
Home builder D.R. Horton advanced its plan to build a subdivision with as many as 224 single-family homes on a golf course in Sharpes, a small town in Brevard County. The Brevard County Commission unanimously approved a zoning change and an amendment to its comprehensive plan that would allow the conversion of an 18-hole golf…
The shuttered Fashion Mall in Plantation could spring back to life after the Plantation City Council approved a $300 million redevelopment plan for the 32.1-acre site on Nov. 30. Art Falcone, CEO of Boca Raton-based Encore Housing Opportunity Fund, said he plans to break ground on the mixed-use project in the second quarter of 2017.…
Melody Tower, a 497-unit high-rise residential and retail mixed-use project of the 27th Plaza Corporation in Miami has been certified as a Florida Green High-Rise Residential Building by the Florida Green Building Coalition (FGBC), after it successfully met the sustainability standards established in the FGBC Florida Green High-Rise Residential Building certification program. The designation represents…
Built more than six decades ago, the Sanford Civic Center is an antiquated facility that sorely needs to be replaced with a larger, modern events center, city leaders and many downtown business owners say. The acoustics in the main auditorium are so poor, they say, that visitors often have trouble hearing speakers or musical performances.…