Channelside tenants bracing for long, slow summer Summer is always slow for many businesses at Channelside Bay Plaza. Most of the cruise ships are gone. Hockey is over, and the concert schedule is light at the Tampa Bay Times Forum next door. With the retail complex’s future still uncertain, this year will be even more…
Unhappy Broward commissioners want more control over city CRAs Broward County commissioners vowed to seek changes in state law to give them more oversight over municipal redevelopment agencies after learning they cannot audit alleged misspending by Hallandale Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency. “We want to get back some control from the state,” County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger…
COMMUNITY GROUPS USE ART TO BEAUTIFY CONSTRUCTION FENCE The West Atlantic Redevelopment Coalition (WARC) and Milagro Center to install children’s artwork on fence banners of CRA-owned site DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), West Atlantic Redevelopment Coalition (WARC) and the Milagro Center will unveil a collaborative project of artistic fence…
SARASOTA – Developer Civix LLC has proposed building a 150-room hotel at Main Street and U.S. 301, a lodging property that, if completed, will be the first downtown in nearly a decade. But to do so, Civix would first have to swap the Sarasota County-owned parking lot at that corner with a nearby site now…
BOCA RATON The city’s downtown has fewer than 4,000 residents, and some say that’s not yet enough to support the businesses along East Palmetto Park Road, the city’s main thoroughfare. So the idea now is to increase the number of residents to help stamp out the bloom of vacancy signs in the heart of the…
Empty storefronts, a common sight during and after the Great Recession, are a thing of the past on Park Avenue. Retail space along the city of Winter Park’s well-known shopping street is fully leased for the first time in more than 25 years, according to Winter Park Land Co. An Ethan Allen retail-design center will…
DAYTONA BEACH — Bringing big hotel and retail developments to the beachfront used to take a big taxpayer investment. And that money was supposed to accomplish big goals: revive the beachside, attract tourists with more money to burn and draw conventions to the Ocean Center. Those goals are still there today — as big as…
MainStreet DeLand Association has found its successor for the executive director who is leaving the organization June 15. Beginning July 1, D. Wayne Carter will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mary Beth Harris, who is relocating to South Florida with her family. Carter was selected from 12 “qualified candidates,” said Savannah-Jane Griffin,…
AmeriCorps and Habitat seek to revitalize Pensacola neighborhood Habitat for Humanity staff and AmeriCorps volunteers kicked off the 2013 AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon in Pensacola today, a week of community development projects in the Westside Garden District Neighborhood in Pensacola.About 80 AmeriCorps volunteers from across the country along with about 20 Pensacola Habitat for Humanity volunteers and…
Council prepares ballot for Aquarium expansion The City of Clearwater gave the Clearwater Marine Aquarium its current facility on Island Estates. Now, CMA wants to build a $160 million facility on the downtown waterfront property currently occupied by city hall. It is negotiating up to a 60-year lease, and this time, it is not a…
Marion County Commission approves Silver Springs CRA County commissioners on Tuesday created a special tax district intended to bolster the appearance and economic appeal of Silver Springs. The board voted unanimously to establish a Community Redevelopment Area, or CRA, a roughly 4,100-acre zone around Silver Springs wherein new tax revenues will be banked to build…
Maximizing potential for Milton’s riverfront Efforts to maximize the potential of downtown Milton and the entire western bank of the Blackwater River are headed to a new level. The City of Milton in partnership with the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council has hired Peter J. Smith & Co., a consultant from Buffalo, N.Y., to…
