Hundreds of concert-goers tote their lawn chairs to amphitheaters in Wellington, West Palm Beach, Delray Beach and Lake Worth for shows that draw few complaints from nearby residents. Amphitheater at Harbourside Place. (Photo by Bill Ingram) Arguments, police calls, protests from residents, petitions from music supporters and a lawsuit by the developer against the town…
Naples City Council approved a controversial Fifth Avenue South redevelopment project last fall, more than a decade after a previous council rejected a near-identical concept based on an analysis that the plans violated the city charter. By voting against a developer’s request in 2003 to construct a three-story hotel above a level of underground parking,…
The Community Redevelopment Agency board on Thursday approved $205,000 toward improvements for a new Piggly Wiggly grocery store in a documented food desert on Tallahassee’s south side. Harveys closed May 2014 — three months after the announcement rocked nearby neighborhoods — due to its proximity to Winn-Dixie on Paul Russell Road. Harveys was an anchor store…
As the fifth-largest city in Florida and home to more than 250,000 residents, St. Petersburg is an active and mobile community. We have a thriving downtown. We have an emerging Innovation District. We have art. We have sports. We have jobs by the thousands and the ability to grow more of them with smart planning.…
CLEARWATER — It has been a missed opportunity on a prime patch of Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard for almost seven years. A nearly 10-acre shopping plaza lot, the longtime home of Kmart, has been a vacant eyesore since the retail giant left in March 2009 after 30 years. If all goes to plan, that could change as…
The The Town of Century held a second special workshop Monday with county officials to learn more about the possibility of forming a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Upon declaration of an area as blighted, the CRA works to improve conditions. As property tax values rise, most of the increase is funneled back into the redevelopment…
BRADENTON — The Bradenton Downtown Development Authority and the three city community redevelopment agencies are locked into 2015-16 budgets with few expendable revenues, which could change in the next budget cycle with an expiring $1.3 million annual interlocal agreement with Manatee County freeing up money sooner than expected. That possibility has put pressure on Bradenton…
In pitching a $45 million bailout for the Frost Science Museum’s beleaguered construction effort, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said the infusion of cash would be the last money the nonprofit should ever expect to receive from the county. But that doesn’t mean millions of dollars in county property taxes won’t provide Frost with a crucial operating subsidy…
The City of Bartow, Florida (the City) is interesting in working with the development team (the Proposer) that has the vision and capacity to transform the former Thompson & Company Cigar Factory (T&CCF) into a signature redevelopment project. The City is also attentive to the future prosperity of the surrounding area; this may result in…
As city of Miami commissioners begin talks about extending the life of the Overtown Parkwest Community Redevelopment Agency, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is seeking changes that could increase county participation and change the agency’s scope. Miami officials aren’t exactly cool to the idea, saying that the idea, which has the support of county commissioners, interferes…
SEBRING — The city of Sebring’s long-awaited sale of Harder Hall appeared to be imminent Monday. As of late Monday afternoon, South Florida Senior Living had not notified the city that it wants to back out of purchasing the historic hotel and transforming it into an independent senior living facility. The Monday deadline was the latest…
TEMPLE TERRACE — A proposal by longtime city dweller Roy Eriksson that could bring life back to the town’s stalemated redevelopment effort is music to the ears of the Temple Terrace City Council members and Mark Sharpe, director of the Tampa Innovation Alliance. Eriksson, the founder and president of Eriksson Technologies, an expanding engineering and software…
