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Pete Pollinger and his wife, Julie, are relocating from Boca Raton to Melbourne, a city of about 70,000 on Florida’s Space Coast, named for its proximity to NASA rocket sites at Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. They weren’t just hunting for a place to live. As they get ready to move this year, they’re …
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The historic Mirasol apartment building near the entrance to Davis Islands has been sold and will continue as a multifamily rental property. The price for the 58-room building, built in the 1920s, was $10,375,000, according to Frank Carriera, an agent for Carriera Regan of Marcus & Millichap, which represented both the buyer and seller. Carriera …
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Monday wasn’t the first time Tampa has tried to do something bold and visionary and transformative at the 23 acres of Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park. But at $35.5 million, City Hall has never put this kind of money into the effort. “This park is not cheap,” Mayor Bob Buckhorn said at a mid-morning ceremony …
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There’s a gold rush on for retail in South Florida.Developers and mall operators want to renovate and expand shopping centers across the region. New retail is popping up, too, especially open-air “high-street” shops with surprisingly gourmet dining — a breezy contrast to the enclosed suburban malls of old. The cost of all that investment runs …
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When the Hotel del Coronado won state approval in 2010 to add 144 rooms to the luxury oceanview resort, its owners agreed to write a check for more than $1 million so that less well-heeled vacationers could afford an overnight stay on the coast – in a hostel. Five years later, that hostel has yet …
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It is sandwiched between England and France, yet it is not part of the European Union. Its expat community is mostly made up of seniors looking for an old-fashioned way of life. And it expects foreigners to pay at least twice as much as locals for the privilege of living on its 30-or-so square miles. …
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