The Tampa City Council and the Tampa Community Redevelopment Agency are investing over three million dollars to make local parks and playgrounds more inclusive. The focus is on children with disabilities. “People who have disabilities have a tendency to be lonely anyways. They are different. I consider it and we talk about it a lot…
The City of Williston’s Community Redevelopment Agency has completed a major phase in plans for downtown revitalization. This phase included renovating a city-owned “arcade” or walkway from Main Street to the back of the businesses, creating a community park off of NE First Avenue, and giving the participating businesses on Main Street a facelift. The…
One of Pompano Beach’s most effective evangelists came to his position in a circuitous way. Nguyen Tran, the city’s community redevelopment agency director, left Vietnam as a child, about a week before the fall of Saigon in 1975. He and his extended family landed in northern Virginia through the good graces of an Alexandria family…
Five-time Grammy Award winner and hip-hop/R&B legend CeeLo Green has signed a partnership deal with Fort Lauderdale-based Victor George Spirits. As part of the multifaceted partnership, Green is now part owner of the brand, a key spokesperson, and will have Victor George Spirits at the top of his touring ride. “Victor George was just a gentleman on our…
Each year, ArtFest Fort Myers draws tens of thousands of art lovers to the downtown Fort Myers River District. This year, the city has a special surprise in store for ArtFest attendees. Work is underway to install a walkable outdoor art and history museum on the stanchions and obelisks that encircle the river basin that’s…
Healthy West Orange Wellness Park Grand Opening – The City of Ocoee will hold a Valentine’s Day grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Healthy West Orange Wellness Park on Tuesday, February 14 at 10:30 a.m. The new park is located directly across from the Ocoee Police Department at 1320 South Bluford Avenue. Read…
The City of Jacksonville’s Downtown Investment Authority and Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services, in collaboration with Build Up Downtown, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, and Riverfront Parks Now, will host a free community event called “Riverfront 2025: A Look Ahead” on February 8. The event will be held from 5 to 8 p.m.…
Creative Pinellas announced the selected artists for the Lealman Mural Project and the launch of community surveys. With one its largest submissions pools for the Lealman Mural Projects to date, three mural artists have been selected to create new works at the Lealman Innovation Academy on 28th Street North, Tommy Todd’s Landscape and Design on…
A new 21-story, mixed-use tower is proposed for 685 and 699 1st Ave. North and 694 Arlington Ave. North near Mirror Lake. The SPGRP II LLC entity linked to real estate investment company Gravel Road Partners, which is listed as the owner, has submitted plans to build the tower that would feature 200 residential units,…
The Community Redevelopment Agency’s citizen committee has a new member, one who spent the past two years as a political fundraiser and supporter of the City Hall majority and has a project worth $776,000 in grant funding. In December, Bugra Demirel was appointed to the Frenchtown-Southside CRA’s Citizen Advisory Committee by Mayor John Dailey. Demirel is…
Work is underway at the river basin adjoining Luminary Hotel on an ambitious new outdoor art and history museum. When it is completed, the walkable gallery will feature 57 murals – four on the obelisks on Edwards Drive and 53 on the concrete stanchions which anchor the decorative fence that circumscribes the basin. The project…
The idea has long been talked about by downtown boosters: Why not open up a cruise ship terminal when it’s not in use to extend what’s arguably the town’s most popular public amenity — the Riverwalk that runs along the water? Despite enthusiasm from city stakeholders, the idea hadn’t seen much progress. Port officials cited…
