Longboat Key Gave Up Its Insularity for Beach Money; The Parking Lot Is the Receipt
For most of its history, Longboat Key paid its own way to the water. Residents taxed themselves to truck in sand, groomed their own...
Beauty, Neglect, and a Battle for the Soul of St. Armands Circle
—While Developers Circle and the City Dithers, Merchants Association President Rachel Burns Walks Every Cracked Inch — and Has a Plan. Does Anyone...
A Draped Sign, a Litigation Threat, a Divided Town, and a Monday Vote That Could Change Longboat Key
This is not a routine zoning dispute. This is a confrontation between two legitimate and powerful claims on the same small barrier island —...
Mira Mar’s Revival Anchors Sarasota’s Downtown Renaissance
There are buildings, and then there are landmarks. Sarasota’s Mira Mar has long been the latter — a structure so woven into the city’s...
Gulfside Road Under Siege: Longboat Key and a pair of storm victims
Drive down Gulfside Road today and you will see a barrier island that, for the most part, has clawed its way back from the...
‘Sunny Day’ Flooding Swamps Longboat — and Its Budget
—The sky can be cloudless, the Gulf of Mexico calm, and still the water comes. It pools in the streets of the Village, backs...
Sarasota’s Bay Park is Getting Its First Waterfront Restaurant
For years, visitors strolling through The Bay — downtown Sarasota’s sweeping 53-acre waterfront park along Sarasota Bay — have had no shortage of breathtaking...
Save our Seabirds: She Came for the Beauty, and Stayed to Protect It
Longboater Linda Mitchell Didn’t Plan to Chair a Bird Rescue Organization. Then She Saw the Seabirds.
Linda Mitchell has a phrase she has lived by...
What a $3.6 Billion Beach Means for Longboat Key and Sarasota’s Barrier Islands
Siesta Key just topped America’s best-beach list again. For Longboat Key and the Sarasota barrier islands, the real story is what that crown is...
Progress Has a Price in Sarasota with Fruitville Road Development Plan
Sarasota needs housing. A Tennessee developer has a plan. And standing in the way are seventeen small businesses, two massive oak trees, and a...