MANATEE COUNTY — To encourage more affordable housing, Manatee County is greatly expanding its effort to subsidize upfront costs for developers. On Tuesday, the commission unanimously adopted the new “Livable Manatee Incentive Program.” Previously, the county would pay impact fees required on the new construction of single-family homes that meet affordable housing criteria. The new […]
Warner Crossing – Wyman, Green & Blalock Real Estate, Inc. MANATEE COUNTY — Wawa’s aggressive expansion into Southwest Florida continues, this time with a new store on State Road 64 east of Interstate 75. Commercial building permits were filed late last week in Manatee County for $903,000 worth of construction for a new Wawa store […]
BRADENTON — Considered an opportunity to remove a long-time blemish on redevelopment efforts on the downtown waterfront, the Bradenton City Council voted Wednesday to loan $2.7 million to the Manatee Players theater to buy 2.6 acres for a parking lot. The property at 301 Seventh St. W. is the site of the old, dilapidated Carver […]
Marketing Information 9.15 EAST MANATEE — A proposal to build a Taco Bell and another fast food restaurant will likely bring more dining options to State Road 64 east of Interstate 75. Development plans submitted to Manatee County late last month show the restaurants are planned for construction across the street from Haile Middle School […]
WHITFIELD — A local property investor who purchased 7.5 acres fronting U.S. Highway 301 at Whitfield Avenue early this month has consolidated lands that could become part of a growing light industrial warehouse district near the Manatee-Sarasota county line. Andrew Goodman, a Sarasota resident who controls multiple business interests, paid $2 million on Nov. 2 […]
Transportation project could transform 15th Street East corridor MANATEE — With an entranceway to Manasota Memorial Park and Funeral Home off 15th Street East, general manager Duane LaFollett wanted to find out more about a transportation project that is expected to transform 15th Street East. “It affects the entranceway into our cemetery,” LaFollett said at […]
PARRISH — Heavy rains made a mess of the Fort Hamer Bridge site during the past month, and complicated several other local road construction projects. Even so, bridge crews, which previously poured two sets of piers extending to the water’s edge on the north side of the Manatee River, drove their first piles in the […]
MANATEE — Transportation planners seek new Manatee River bridge. A four-lane bridge over the Manatee River, expansion of Interstate 75 to 10 lanes and widening of Fort Hamer Road are among Manatee County’s roadway needs. The Sarasota/Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization approved the 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan Needs Plan on Monday. The plan “identifies all […]
The Bradenton DDA Selection Committee that previously tapped Sarasota-based Beneficial Communities to help develop the old Manatee Inns site on 14th Street West heard a more detailed proposal Wednesday. Beneficial, along with Bradenton’s Fawley Bryant architectural firm, presented a conceptual design for workforce housing featuring a staggered-roof commercial and residential building on 14th Street West […]
BRADENTON — Now that the city has finalized the expansion of the Village of the Arts boundaries to include 14th Street West, questions remain for the village because of that corridor’s reputation as a trouble spot. Village business owners point out that their neighborhood has already had to overcome public perception that it is an […]