Tampa Mayor Jane Castor addressed the city's red-hot real estate market and affordability crisis before turning the microphone over to former Mayor Bob Buckhorn, who started working on the tower halfway through his first term in office.
Florida lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a plan to bolster the safety of condominium buildings, after the devastating collapse last year of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside.
An apartment tower first proposed in downtown Tampa in 2013 will finally celebrate its groundbreaking Thursday. Coastal Construction, the general contractor on the project, said Wednesday it will hold a ceremony to commemorate the beginning of construction for Arts and Entertainment Residences. The developer is a partnership of Miami-based American Land Ventures and the North American affiliate of Tel Aviv-based Gazit Globe Ltd. Jeff Mooallem, president and CEO of Gazit Horizons Inc., first confirmed…
The 308-unit apartment complex has been sold to a group connected to to Denver-based Treeline Partners.
While the Legislature couldn't get a deal together during the regular session, negotiations resumed in special session.
“I see this as an industry that essentially has Stage 4 cancer and is failing. The solutions here are as if we’re treating it with Stage 1 cancer.”
The home fronts the Gulf of Mexico and comes with a built-in saltwater aquarium.
The sale has smashed the record set by Manor Riverwalk in late 2021.
Downtown St. Petersburg will get 73 affordable housing units that will be predominately targeted toward unhoused residents.
As he prepares to act on a proposed state budget, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday backed a new $100 million program to help people such as teachers, health care workers and police officers buy homes. Amid soaring housing costs in many parts of Florida, DeSantis said during a news conference at the Cape Coral Police Department that the “Hometown Heroes” program is needed so people in a number of professions can live in or close to the communities they serve. “It really matters if they can afford…