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...
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...
St. Regis Denies Nearly Every Word of Longboat’s Case, Raises Six Defenses, and a Judge Sets the Arch Trial for January 2028
For a year, Chuck Whittall fought the Town of Longboat Key with photographs.He fought it from a Town Hall podium, from the driver’s seat...
Longboat Wants Homes to Go Up; Its Own Code Keeps Getting in the Way
—Longboat Key wants more of its homes lifted out of harm’s way. On June 22, the Town Commission confronted an awkward truth: the Town’s...
Inside Shore’s Latest Development to Remake St. Armands Circle
The developer who once tried to put a hotel behind these buildings now owns the buildings. The city that twice rejected him is buying...