[CPEO-BIF] Newtown, Sarasota, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

After years of promises and $180 million, Newtown still waits for  
revival


By J. DAVID McSWANE
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL)
May 8, 2011

SARASOTA - Ten years ago, city officials paid a consultant $150,000  
to draft a bold plan to do one thing: fix Newtown.

The plan called for a business hub - a "catalyst project" - to inject  
prosperity into Martin Luther King Jr. Way, the heart of Sarasota's  
economically languishing black community.

It would become a critical goal in Sarasota's push to lure businesses  
and jobs to drive out the poverty, blight and crime that have long  
plagued Newtown.

As then-Mayor Carolyn Mason described it in 2002: "This is going to  
be the blueprint by which the development will take place."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110508/ARTICLE/110509562/-1/ 
NEWS?Title=After-a-decade-of-promises-and-180million-Newtown-still- 
waits-for-revival

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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