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The report also forecasts that a Van Wezel replacement would bring $313 million in new local tax revenues over 30 years and $1.7 billion in new construction.

County commissioners' recommendation forecasts no tax increment financing revenues for the Sarasota Performing Arts Center architect contract.

The new chair is Richard Russell, general director of the Sarasota Opera. Board members are charged with promoting VSC's mission.

The event will determine who heads to the Paris Olympics this summer.

City and county commissioners clash over the release of TIF funds for the Sarasota Performing Arts Center architect contract.

The Sarasota project is part of a nearly 1,500-unit multifamily development that will include a grocery store and pharmacy on 114 acres of county land at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Tuttle Avenue.

A proposed micro-simulation model would have cost an estimated $500,000 and provided little new information.

The District 1 commissioner was selected during the board's annual planning retreat.

Siesta Key residents are not happy with Sarasota County after some commissioners gave a nod to reviewing a development proposal calling for changes.

The proposal allows as many rooms that could fit inside the building allowed under development codes.