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Desis Downtown Restaurant is a Crestview gem of home-cooked favorites.

While City Manager Tim Bolduc told the council that Benchmark officials still are not ready to announce the tenants of the Commons, he noted that major clearing work recently began. Several retaining walls and almost 250,000 cubic yards of fill dirt will be added to the property as part of the initial phase of site work, and building pads are expected to be in place by early next year, according to information from Benchmark. A national grocery store and a “very popular” sit-down restaurant...

A family tragedy inspired Josh and Tiff Moen of Hub City Skate to help get the Crestviews skate park off the ground as a safe refuge for kids.

The new skate parks grand opening will feature food, raffles and skating exhibitions, and the facility will open daily from dawn to 11 p.m.

CRESTVIEW — In and next to Crestview, which already is Okaloosa Countys largest and most-populated city, several subdivisions containing a total of more than 2,000 single-family homes are either being built or are in the late planning stages. Many of the residents of all of those new houses will, of course, add to the traffic congestion on already busy roads such as State Road 85. While the developers of some of the new subdivisions plan to upgrade streets next to their projects, far gr...

CRESTVIEW — With the goal of creating space for safe, affordable housing, city officials hope to soon see old, rickety houses in a high-crime part of town demolished and cleared away. The Crestview City Council in March unanimously approved paying a little more than $106,000 to local businessman Jay Woodbury for the purchase of eight residential lots. Four of the parcels are vacant lots on North Savage Street, and four contain a total of six houses, all of which will be razed, on West Bowers ...

By Tommy ChristopherApr 9th, 2021, 9:53 am Embattled Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is the “star” of a new billboard that proclaims “Matt Gaetz Wants to ‘Date’ Your Child.” The Sunshine State Republican is the subject of an ever-deepening scandal involving allegations of sex trafficking of minors, a fact that Mad Dog PAC founder Claude Taylor highlighted by funding the billboard, and posting  video of it on Twitter. “Hello, @mattgaetz any thoughts on the billboard? Reporters a...

CRESTVIEW — The Crestview Commons mixed-use development is expected to open in the spring of 2022. City Manager Tim Bolduc shared that information with the City Council on Monday while providing an update on the project. The Benchmark Group of Amherst, New York, is the developer of the estimated $14 million project. The company’s plans include the development of about 73,000 square feet of inline retail space plus two national sit-down restaurant chains northwest of State Road 85 (Fer...

Alcohol sales The council on Monday also approved the first reading of an ordinance that, with final approval, would revise the hours for when alcoholic beverages can be sold in Crestview. The city currently prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages from 4-7 a.m. Monday through Saturday and from 4 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. Exceptions to the rule are any restaurants that regularly serve full meals from 10 a.m. until 4 a.m. the following morning. The proposed ordinance calls for prohibiting the ...

Crestview Martin Luther King Jr. observance to proceed as a motorcade Brian Hughes | Special to Gannett CRESTVIEW — A pair of community organizations have partnered with Mayor JB Whitten and the city to assure the Crestview Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Observance will proceed. To avoid conflicts with other cities’ observances, the Crestview event will be Saturday, Jan. 16. The Carver-Hill Community Coalition and the Crestview Youth Coalition have taken on the task of organizing the ci...