Boynton’s development project gets a lifeline The Boynton Community Redevelopment Agency board unanimously voted to throw a stalled downtown development project a lifeline. On Tuesday, the CRA board went against staff’s recommendation to kill the One Boynton LLC/Kanner & Pintaluga project and voted to wait another 30 days to try and reach an agreement. “There’s…
Winter Park tries to make it easier to park your car on Park Avenue Winter Park’s tree-lined, picturesque Park Avenue offers some of Central Florida’s best dining and shopping. If you can find a parking spot. Empty spots are tough to come by at peak times, and the situation tends to get worse during the…
Inspector general’s Hallandale probe painful Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper didn’t like the way she and her city were handled by the Broward County inspector general earlier this year. Cooper sent a three-page letter to the bosses of Inspector General John Scott a few days before his annual evaluation last week. At the evaluation meeting…
Treasure Island’s Silverboard: parking garage not feasible TREASURE ISLAND – City Manager Reid Silverboard told Treasure Island Commissioners Nov. 5 that building a parking garage either beachside or downtown is not feasible. He pointed to the estimated $6 million cost and the revenue the city would receive as the reason. “As you know, we have…
Major Boynton downtown development hits negotiation snag Negotiations have failed in a major downtown Boynton Beach development that could have brought 200 jobs to the city. The CRA board will hear an update of the One Boynton LLC/Kanner & Pintaluga project — which included a hotel, two multi-use towers and a 50,000-square-foot headquarters for law…
Downtown Boca: Allocated residential space nearly gone If you want to build a place to live in downtown Boca Raton, act fast. In a city where 469 residential units are under construction downtown and another 558 are due to begin building before the middle of next year, it looks like downtown Boca Raton is quickly running out of…
Delray Marketplace adding parking spaces After almost a decade of waiting, residents of West Delray got the entertainment complex they asked for in the form of Delray Marketplace. What they didn’t get were enough places to park. But, that will change soon. Officials from the center, which is located at the intersection of West Atlantic…
Locals pitch baseball complex for downtown West Palm Beach WEST PALM BEACH — Bruce Lewis says he’s not trying to create “a turf war” between Palm Beach Gardens and West Palm Beach. But knowing that neighborhoods in Palm Beach Gardens were pushing back at a plan to build a two-team baseball complex there, Lewis decided to…
Should Venice’s Seaboard area be redeveloped? VENICE – Sam Lubus, a machine manufacturer in Venice for about 20 years, worries about the future of his business if the area where it is located undergoes the type of sweeping redevelopment being talked about at City Hall. Inline Filling Systems is in Seaboard, an industrial zone of factories,…
Fort Myers entertainment district report questioned Proposed regulation for an existing entertainment district in downtown Fort Myers Beach received negative feedback from neighboring and island residents during a workshop at Town Hall Wednesday. After listening to a report from Larue Planning Management and discussion from Town officials, many residents spoke in opposition to potential guidelines…
Both Restoration and Decay Characterize Lakeland’s Historic Dixieland LAKELAND | It was the front porch that captivated Mary Smith. As she and her husband, Jack Smith, drove through Lakeland’s Dixieland neighborhood in 1997, checking on homes for sale, a bungalow house on Highland Street captured her heart. She said the 1923 structure reminded her of…
Hialeah Councilman proposes arts district Picture a walkable stretch of east Hialeah lined with mural-painted walls, galleries and music venues. Peppered with cafeterias and thrift stores that now rest between a smattering of car repair shops warehouses, the area would be home to artists and their work in spaces with cheap rents. It’s the vision…
