Paul Thorpe has received warranted credit recently for his efforts to improve downtown Sarasota. As historian Jeff LaHurd wrote in the Herald-Tribune, Thorpe long ago earned the moniker “Mr. Downtown” in recognition of his volunteer and professional work with the Downtown Association he helped create and operate — and the city has appropriately agreed to…
North Miami Beach – Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) – Are you ready to retire your septic system? A new commercial property – “Wastewater Impact and Connection Fee Assistance Program” is available, which reimburses up to 50% of the Impact Fees and Connection Fees to tie-in to a sewer system. This Program incentivizes commercial property owners…
Gainesville changes. The Thomas Center was the Thomas Hotel, named for the family who made it their home in 1910. The Sun Center was once the Gainesville Sun headquarters. The newspaper’s name remains on the building’s outside wall. Lillian’s Bar was Lillian’s Music Store, memorialized in Tom Petty lyrics. Perhaps most strikingly, Depot Park was…
TAMPA — City Hall received seven proposals in response to its invitation to put a restaurant next to Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, and the company it picked — Irish pub Four Green Fields — offered the most money. “I’m happy with the selection we got at Curtis Hixon,” said Mayor Bob Buckhorn, who had indicated…
WINTER HAVEN — The city is hoping that replacing outdated zoning regulations will boost home sales and encourage development. “I think the vision is how you revitalize and how you infuse growth into these particular areas,” Assistant City Manager T. Michael Stavres said. Proposed is changing land use regulations for office professional, multi-family and single-family…
NEW PORT RICHEY — The city has received two grants that will be a big boost for continued redevelopment of the historic Hacienda Hotel while it remains up in the air what the city will do with the building. New Port Richey received two grants totaling $550,000 from the Florida Division of Historical Resources last…
(CHICAGO) – June 22, 2017 – Political polarization and global uncertainty lead the list of current and emerging disruptors that are expected to have the most significant impact on real estate in 2017 and 2018, according to The Counselors of Real Estate®, which recently released The CRE® 2017-18 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate. The…
LIVE OAK — Two months after agreeing to make Heritage Square its primary focus for future projects and initiatives, the Community Redevelopment Agency furthered that mission at Tuesday’s meeting. The CRA board green-lighted a pair of proposals geared towards spurring the development of Heritage Square, the recently expanded area of Live Oak between Ohio Avenue and…
WEST PALM BEACH — From the world’s tallest building to a high-end medical campus, a digital animation studio and a financial tower of undulating glass topped with a spire, the site at the confluence of Okeechobee Boulevard and Dixie Highway has stirred developers’ imaginations with concepts ambitious and unusual. But for all the prominence of these 2.4…
On Monday, June 19, 2017, the City of North Miami Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) held the groundbreaking ceremony of NoMa, which just recently started construction. NoMa is the perfect example of infill redevelopment-in-action through a best practice approach, a synergy of private sector investment and public sector assistance. The Developer, Eden Multifamily, is constructing…
TAMPA — The developers who are spending more than $3 billion in private investment to transform downtown Tampa released a new rendering that shows how much the skyline will grow in nine years, and also revealed the name of the project: Water Street Tampa, “Water Street Tampa is an existing street that runs through downtown…
Pompano Beach, a centrally located seaside city in Broward County, is developing an “innovation district” as part of a plan to renovate its aging, downtown center. The city has been working “to build a second century downtown since 2007,” said Thomas DiGiorgio, an architect and builder who is chairman of the Pompano Beach Economic Development…
