The Shore’s First Hearing Ends With One Unit to Prove and a Plan to Redo
Fifteen zoning comments, a height finding the city won’t bend, a flood reckoning, and an aging asbestos water main stood between the plan and...
Inside the $15 Million Sale at 1067 Westway Drive
The transaction underscores both the enduring appeal of Florida’s Gulf Coast and the shifting dynamics of the luxury real estate market.
—The sprawling waterfront...
Sarasota Business Owners Revolt Over Expanded Parking Hours
Facing a $2.8 million parking shortfall, the city chose longer meter hours over a 50% rate hike. Three months later, the landlords and restaurateurs...
State Probes Cause of Longboat Fire that Gutted Duplex
An early-morning fire tore through a two-story duplex at the Dock on the Bay condominium community last week.
—The blaze destroyed two units and setting...
PBS Spotlight Turns to Mote’s Shark Breakthrough
For years, the story of the disappearing catch has played out just off our own beaches: a grouper or snapper hooked in 140 feet...
Fix It, Prove It, Elevate It: Sarasota Hands Shore Restaurant a Wall of Development Conditions
Sarasota's planners issued their comments on the Shore redevelopment Monday, two days before the Development Review Committee meets. They contain a long list of...
City Board Says Save It, Staff Says Let It Go: The Battle Over 1891 Wisteria Street
A modest one-story house on Wisteria Street, built when Sarasota was still riding the 1920s land boom, has become the center of a preservation...
Freeze Now, Ask in November: Why Sarasota Stopped Hiring, and What It Means for Longboat, Lido and Downtown
The City of Sarasota has stopped filling jobs. The county has revived a playbook it wrote during the Great Recession. Both are bracing for...
Not Just Sarasota: Across Florida, Governments Are Freezing Hiring Before the November Tax Vote
From Citrus County to Leon to Fort Myers, Florida governments are freezing hiring and drafting severance plans months before a single vote is cast...
Scientists Pinpoint Disease-Resistant Star Corals to Save Florida’s Reefs
By exposing over 150 genetically distinct corals to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, researchers have identified 12 robust survivors that could serve as the...
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