Bonita’s downtown reboot hits a crucial stage
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. – Plans for a rebooted downtown Bonita Springs have reached another crucial milestone. Read full article
Daytona Beach pursuing riverfront grants
DAYTONA BEACH — The Beach Street riverfront, the corridor that was home to the city’s earliest businesses and homes, and for several decades was the town’s main retail hub, could be entering a new era. City commissioners unanimously decided at their meeting Wednesday night to go after $432,353 in grants that will pay for design…
2014 Florida Bicycle and Pedestrian Partnership Council’s Annual Report
We are pleased to provide you with the 2014 edition of the Florida Bicycle and Pedestrian Partnership Council’s Annual Report. The Florida Bicycle and Pedestrian Partnership Council was established in 2010 as a statewide initiative on bicycle and pedestrian mobility to make policy recommendations to partner agencies and organizations throughout Florida on walking, bicycling and…
Main Street Streetscape Project to be completed in time for Bikefest
Leesburg’s downtown Main Street Streetscape Project is near completion and Main Street will be open in time for Bikefest beginning on April p:BC BCJ Body Copy RR drop cap 24, City Manager Al Minner said Tuesday.p:BC BCJ Body Copy RR drop cap “It is probably 85 to 90 percent complete,” Minner said. “We are pretty…
Manatee County to focus on redevelopment ‘corridors’
MANATEE COUNTY – As it revises its land use rules to encourage urban redevelopment, the Manatee County Commission says it will make five “corridors” its priority areas: Manatee Avenue, Cortez Road, 53rd Avenue, 15th Street East and the Tamiami Trail. Next, county planners will select three actual sites available for redevelopment, such as vacant lots…
West Palm Beach moves to encourage downtown office construction
WEST PALM BEACH — The City Commission approved a measure Monday to encourage construction of office towers downtown, to address a shortage of top-flight office space and avoid companies going elsewhere. The measure, approved unanimously, is an amendment to the city’s zoning and development regulations that would create an incentive for construction of Class A…
Boynton historic homes to become businesses
Two historic homes on Boynton Beach‘s Ocean Avenue could soon become homes to some of the city’s newest businesses. Tuesday, board members will discuss at the city’s redevelopment agency meeting which businesses will inhabit the Magnuson House, at 211 Ocean Ave., and The Ruth Jones cottage, at 480 Ocean Ave. The Magnuson House is one…
Why developers are building in suburbia instead of redeveloping in Manatee
MANATEE COUNTY – A few years ago, a committee for the Manatee Chamber of Commerce conducted an exercise to see if Manatee County’s land development code is conducive to urban redevelopment. Clifford Walters, an attorney who chaired the Infill Committee when it performed the case study, said its members determined that “all the complexities and…
Volusia council to clamp down on city CRAs with new parking fee rule
DELAND — Volusia County will consider a broad policy in the future that would repeal community redevelopment areas if cities choose to discriminate against county residents by charging them for parking. The County Council Thursday was set to consider a resolution that would have repealed New Smyrna Beach’s two CRAs in response to a weeks-long…
A promising plan for redevelopment
Opportunity has bypassed much of south St. Petersburg, leaving many largely African-American neighborhoods coping with unemployment, run-down housing and crime. Now city officials have proposed an innovative tax strategy to fight stagnation with job training and public subsidies for private businesses and property owners. It has the potential to help transform the area, and City…
TAMIAMI TRAIL (14th STREET WEST) REDEVELOPMENT SITE RFQ #2015-01, Bradenton Downtown Development Authority
This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is issued in accordance with Florida Statutes Section 163.380 by the Bradenton Downtown Development Authority (the “DDA”). The objective of this RFQ process is to ascertain the most qualified interest for the creation of an appropriate and sustainable private, mixed-use redevelopment of properties owned by the DDA. The successful respondent…
Pompano eyes $19 million beach parking garage
Give them a place to park and they will come. City commissioners on Tuesday will consider paying for a 609-space parking garage to serve what they hope will be a revitalized beachside. But this is not going to be any ordinary parking garage, rather it will be framed by three-story sails. It’s the next step…