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...
Van Wezel Lands $3.5 Million State Grant While Its Fate Stays Unsettled
The Sarsota City Commission is set to accept a no-match DEP grant Monday for flood barriers, elevated utilities and wave-resistant hardening at the 56-year-old...
Sarasota School Board Fight Reaches Fever Pitch
—The campaign signs got to the schoolhouse before some of the students did.
—They crowd the corners of downtown, stand sentry along the streets around...
Sarasota Unanimously Suspends Parking Expansion After Merchants Storm City Hall
"Think about the psychology of a parking ticket. Giving someone a fine is a punishment. A punishment is designed to stop a behavior from...
Longboat commissioner blindsided as Sarasota erases second-bridge policy in split transportation vote
"That is total and complete traffic congestion. They are asking you to approve a document that would say the maximum traffic congestion a developer...