Main Street
Everyone loves Pineapple Square’s vision for downtown Sarasota including the City Commissioners who last night approved the changes to the project. The changes means 300 parking spaces in a Downtown Parking garage and a Hotel instead of condominiums for the project. This second phase runs along State Street and Pineapple in Downtown Sarasota. Pineapple Square’s first phase…
Downtown Sarasota Roundabout is open to traffic ! This is great news for the merchants of Main Street. Work will continue on the landscaping. There will be an opening celebration at 5pm today at Main Street , Central and Pineapple Avenues.
Transforming a major downtown intersection where five streets meet has not been easy for retailers and drivers – But I think Downtown Sarasota will benefit in the end.. And the end is slated for October. 2010 Once it is complete pedestrians will find it easier to cross the five streets and motorists will navigate the intersection in a perpetual motion…
In the past six months 24 new businesses have opened their doors in downtown Sarasota. Sure we had our losses like Sarasota News and Books and Jakes but things are looking brighter. The 24 openings out numbered the 10 closings. This has exceeded the expectations of the Downtown Sarasota Alliance and is great news for all of us…
In downtown Sarasota Valets are great and we do appreciate them but for the “do it your self-parker” more spaces are desperately needed. Could this be their answer ? The city owned land on Palm Avenue will have it’s groundbreaking for a 743 vehicle parking garage with approximately 10,000 square feet of retail space in…
