The latest downtown revitalization plan unveiled this week calls for walkable green spaces and a bustling town square peppered with outdoor dining and retail shops to fill the vacant storefronts. But the 146-page blueprint the city paid consultants nearly $400,000 to write makes no mention of the Church of Scientology’s future implications on downtown revival…
Residents in Malone will be receiving water in a more a dependable and sustainable way. The town was funded more than $270,000 from the Northwest Florida Water Management District in December 2015 for new water main lines. Now they’ll be able to see those funds come to fruition. That money is channeled into installing the…
Here’s how much West Palm loves its waterfront sidewalks: Commissioners this week gave the city’s legal department authority to buy or take by eminent domain land the city already owns, to make sure it stays a public walkway even after Palm Harbor Marina builds a hotel there. How do you buy land you already own?…
The Town Commission argued, debated, raised fears and ultimately agreed to wait until a March workshop to consider the fundamental rules and regulations that will govern development and redevelopment on Longboat Key. On the agenda at last Monday’s regular meeting were amendments to the future Land Use Comprehensive Plan categories that define and embody what…
In the last days of 2016, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that tattooing is a First Amendment-protected act of expression. The court said cities can’t ban the businesses and also can’t restrict them to the point where they’re all but banned. The ruling was a legal defeat for the city of…
The City’s Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is conducting a workshop Tuesday January 31, 2017 at 6 p.m. at City Hall 5790 Margate Blvd. when elected officials will discuss proposed modifications to the City Center (Margate downtown) plan. According to Margate Mayor and CRA Chairman, Tommy Ruzzano, the public will be allowed to speak and share…
Beneath the 25-mile-long Metrorail that runs through Miami is 25 miles of unused space where grass and a crooked, worn-down asphalt path lay. Meg Daly and Friends of The Underline are trying to turn 10 miles of that unused space into an urban trail that will attract artists, businesses and, perhaps most importantly, get people…
Lake County plans to add a traffic roundabout at the intersection of Old US Highway 441 and Eudora Road, along State Road 19A at the Golden Triangle Shopping Center area. Construction of the roundabout is expected to begin by the end of 2018, said T.J. Fish, the executive director of Lake County’s Metropolitan Planning Organization.…
The City of Tallahassee is beginning to negotiate the sale of the Firestone Building and Bloxham Annex to the North American Properties company. The properties are located at the corner of Gaines and Gadsden Streets, just east of Cascades Park. NAP hopes to replace the abandoned state offices with a mixed-use community, complete with residential…
This May, a 5,500-square-foot piece of donated, local history could be hauled half a mile east on U.S. Highway 98 and reassembled as the city’s first official welcome center. That’s the proposal for the 111-year-old Gulfview Hotel building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and stands at 12 Miracle Strip Parkway SE.…
The redevelopment of a prime block in downtown St. Petersburg has taken a major step forward. Ending a long-running dispute, First States Investors has transferred its part of the 400 block of Central Avenue to members of the Pheil family in a $10 million transaction, newly recorded deeds show. Family members, who own the rest…
J.T. Williams, with his wife, Tina, owns and operates Sugarboo’s Bar-B-Q, a restaurant that for 16 years has been located on Grandview Street in Mount Dora. Williams said people come from all over to sample his cooking. Williams said he believes that notoriety comes from social media marketing and rating websites he utilizes, word of…
