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The merchants' organization at St. Armands Circle could be on the hunt for its third executive director in two years if Rachel Burns is appointed to the Business Improvement District.
Commissioners vote 4-1 to take no action on proposals to build on city-owned parking lot.
5 hours ago Share Let the conversation begin, but perhaps this time, the ending will be happier than previous trips down this road. We’ve seen this movie so many times. Sometimes the ending changes, but up to the end, it’s always another version of “Groundhog Day.” You know how it goes: The opening scene is a peaceful, charming community, much like Garrison Keillor’s fictional town where everyone is above average and happy. Then along comes, ugh, the developer. He wants to build on a vacant lot. And then all hell breaks loose. What? More traffic? More noise? Block my...
2 days ago Share Despite concern from Longboat Key officials, the Sarasota City Commission is considering a mixed-use project proposed for the site of a public parking lot. There's a long way to go before a proposed mixed-use complex anchored by a hotel and grocery store could possibly be built on St. Armands Circle, but the concept cleared its first hurdle at Monday’s City Commission meeting. The development team of John Meshad, Gavin Meshad and Dennis McGillicuddy appeared at the meeting to present their vision for a project on the Fillmore Drive parking lot adjacent to th...
2 weeks ago Share A developer wants the city to consider turning a St. Armands parking lot into a mixed-use hub anchored by a hotel. Could that one day become reality? Gavin Meshad wants to make clear that he doesn’t have any formal development plans for the Fillmore Drive parking lot on St. Armands Circle. He just sees a lot of potential there. On May 17, Meshad is scheduled to give a presentation to the City Commission on behalf of commercial development firm JWM Management outlining a preliminary concept for a hypothetical mixed-use project on the 1.98-acre city-owned ...