Four years ago, Pensacola developer Sonny Granger announced he was going to build a high-rise condominium in downtown Tallahassee.
The cheers were muted. Sure, Tallahassee officials had talked for years about bringing residents back downtown. But apartments costing several hundred thousand dollars? High-rise buildings? No way, said the cynics. Tallahassee isn’t ready for that cosmopolitan lifeÂstyle.