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Michael Jordan-Backed Private Club Faces Its Final Hurdle Wednesday

With Jordan, Ernie Els and Serena Williams on the marquee and $6,000 annual dues on the menu, 1000 North seeks approval Wednesday amid a...

Two Days After the City Begged for Calm, a Parking Officer Was Assaulted on St. Armands

Two days after commissioners spent a workshop pleading with the public to stop abusing city parking staff, an enforcement officer was assaulted near the...

Sarasota’s Traffic Rewrite Would Make 100 Percent Congestion the Downtown Standard; A Commissioner Is Sounding the Alarm

For a builder, a comprehensive plan that has made peace with gridlock is one less lawsuit, one less denial, one less expensive traffic study...

Dune Project Caps $13 Million Fight to Save Lido Beach

Crews mobilize Sept. 14 to build 1.2 miles of vegetated dunes, the final phase of a federally funded campaign to rebuild a shoreline that...

Garage Gets a Defender as Island President Answers Sarasota’s Parking Revolt

Chris Goglia says the structure sheltered flood victims during Helene and should never be sold. The consultant who justified it warned its financing numbers...

Sloan’s Hot-Pink Ice Cream Parlor Joins St. Armands’ Dessert Counter

The West Palm Beach chain signs 1,450 square feet at a crosswalk two doors from Ben & Jerry’s, as the post-hurricane lease shuffle keeps...

How One Consultant’s Projection Built the St. Armands Garage and Broke Sarasota’s Parking

"In the absence of proven historical parking revenues, establishing financing that relies primarily on parking revenues would need to be analyzed to determine if...

Restaurateur Warns Sarasota Its Back-In Parking Ban Could Get Someone Killed

Sarasota's parking program has spent the summer inventing new ways to make people angry. On Monday a Main Street business owner walked into City...

From Peacocks to Parking Woes: A Sarasota Homeowner’s Six-Month Construction Nightmare

What started as a routine utility project in a quiet Sarasota neighborhood quickly devolved into a bitter months-long standoff involving disabled security cameras, alleged...

What the School Board Shake-up Means for Sarasota

The campaign signs are coming down along Osprey Avenue and around Southside Elementary, and the thing they were fighting over is settled. The conservative...

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