Development

The state has been slow to adopt rules to protect Florida's endangered springs. A boom in residential construction has increased the amount of groundwater being taken from the aquifers.

Keith Padgett paints the winding rivers, waterside forests and old-timey shrimp boats of Florida’s rural Gulf Coast. Yet, like many other artists who paint landscapes of nature in Florida, he fears the myriad of threats chipping away at the very subject of his work.

The 17-mile state project between Polk and Pasco counties will cost nearly $270 million and take four years to complete.

Cave divers in North Central Florida say the proposed 500-home Tara Forest West development could contaminate the Floridan Aquifer with its stormwater runoff.

The county commission voted 4-1 to approve rezoning for 3H Ranch but stalled a smaller proposal to build 46 homes near Fruitville Road.

Expanded development and lack of prescribed burns have been hurting scrub jay habitats throughout Florida.

The plan, presented by developer Darryl Shaw, would free space in the Ybor Citry historic district while offering the sheriff's office a much larger location near the Brandon mall.

The south St. Petersburg neighborhood has been designated a federal food desert ever since a Walmart closed down seven years ago.

The $500 million first phase includes a 261-room hotel, 273 residential units, a 65,000-square-foot event venue, an office tower, shops, restaurants and a parking garage.

The 2021 collapse killed nearly 100 people. Regulations passed since then have raised costs for those living in older buildings. Developers want homeowners to sell so they can put up luxury condos.

Planning work is underway for 170 homes adjacent to the wetland restoration project.

The Sound amphitheater will be the next step in redeveloping Coachman Park as a part of Imagine Clearwater.