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…
Uptown Delray could be next residential project in city’s downtown Live, work, play: It’s the mantra of developers wanting to build in downtown Delray Beach. Uptown Delray, a project proposed on Southeast Second Street two blocks south of Atlantic Avenue, wants in on the excitement. The City Commission will consider the project Tuesday at its…
Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest growing poor population in the country and more than half of the metropolitan poor. Yet the place-based antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. Confronting Suburban Poverty in America paints a new picture of poverty in the United…
Delray CRA offers land for development If you’re a developer with a creative project in mind, the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency may be looking for you. The agency recently announced it is looking for development proposals for a 5.5-acre property it owns on the south side of West Atlantic Avenue, between Southwest Sixth and…
Downtown housing in NSB could start across from City Hall NEW SMYRNA BEACH — A push to spur downtown housing that stalled last year is re-emerging with property just across from City Hall once again as the focus. City officials are readying a request for proposals to sell an almost 2-acre site at the corner…
CLOUD COMPUTING CONCEPTS GETS $38,000 INCENTIVE FROM DELRAY CRA Globally recognized tech firm to relocate from Boca MEDIA RELEASE June 5, 2013 DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency has approved an incentive of $38,023.85 for the technology and IT services firm Cloud Computing Concepts (C3) to relocate its corporate headquarters from Boca Raton…
Bills clamp down on ‘brownfields’ designations after reports Two bills signed by Gov. Rick Scott within the past week will restrict the designation of “brownfield” redevelopment sites that are eligible for state tax credits. Brownfields are described in state law as property for which development, expansion or reuse may be complicated “by actual or perceived…
Pinellas considers special taxing districts for poor neighborhoods Encouraged by nascent plans for a special taxing district south of downtown St. Petersburg, the Pinellas County Commission is considering using the same method of stoking development in four other low-income areas of the county. East Tarpon Springs, North Greenwood, Highpoint, parts of Lealman, and neighborhoods south…
Downtown site brings strong response for Boynton Beach farmers market settling in at new site BOYNTON BEACH —With the summer approaching, the managers of a fledgling farmers market have high hopes — especially now that they’ve moved from a vacant lot along busy Federal Highway to an intimate city park. “They love the location. It’s…
