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"This week’s Tour Tuesday video highlights our Transit Oriented Development/Main Street concept.

Through our visioning process, our residents expressed a desire for more mixed-use communities in DeBary. Our focus is to create opportunities for living accommodations and small specialty businesses, such as restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, salons, and other businesses that prosper in these settings. All this along with a main street concept where community wide events and festivals can take place. Uniquely, DeBary incorporates another treasure, Eco-Tourism. Within minutes of our Main Street project, residents and visitors can enjoy fishing, boating, disc golf, camping, kayaking, canoeing, biking and walking trails, and parks.

So join us on this Tour of Main Street DeBary.

DeBary… Naturally. More Than You Imagined"

Video: https://fb.watch/1pvk0PPAHB/

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12 minutes ago, orange87 said:

"This week’s Tour Tuesday video highlights our Transit Oriented Development/Main Street concept.

Through our visioning process, our residents expressed a desire for more mixed-use communities in DeBary. Our focus is to create opportunities for living accommodations and small specialty businesses, such as restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, salons, and other businesses that prosper in these settings. All this along with a main street concept where community wide events and festivals can take place. Uniquely, DeBary incorporates another treasure, Eco-Tourism. Within minutes of our Main Street project, residents and visitors can enjoy fishing, boating, disc golf, camping, kayaking, canoeing, biking and walking trails, and parks.

So join us on this Tour of Main Street DeBary.

DeBary… Naturally. More Than You Imagined"

Video: https://fb.watch/1pvk0PPAHB/

If DeLand is DeLightful!, I wonder what that makes DeBary?

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After just adding a new factory relocated from California last year, Lockheed Martin is thinking about another in Titusville for ballistic missiles.

These are the real jobs our economy should be concentrating on instead of wasting more time and resources on the low-wage economy. 
 


https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2020/11/09/lockheed-martin-plans-new-titusville-factory.html?ana=maz

From OBJ
 
The tourism industry may make Central Florida interesting, but it isn’t doing enough so workers can pay their bills. It’s also keeping too many businesses from taking the region seriously.
 
We have enough parks. Any more and we’re just doubling down on heartache whenever there’s a disaster, either natural or man made.

 

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Some activity on the Daytona beachside. Orlando investors have bought unoccupied land between Aliki Forum and Island Crowne condos up towards Ormond , as well as an old strip center across from the Streamline (both are on FL A1A):


https://www.hometownnewsvolusia.com/business/volusia-business-news-manufactured-home-lot-rentals-getting-scarier/article_a76e4748-22aa-11eb-9a5a-8ba986cf0ec6.html

From Hometown News Volusia 
 

 

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Here’s something you don’t see too often- residents, government and the developer all giving the thumbs up on a project.

Astor’s long-time Jungle Den marina, motel and a trailer park, on the St Johns River at FL 40, is generally considered the halfway point on the waterway between Lake Monroe and Jax. It also was a popular tourist spot between Ocala’s attractions (Silver Springs, Six Gun Territory) and the Daytona Beach area.

Like some of the attractions noted above, the Jungle Den has been trying to hang on with memories of faded glory. The proposal is good for just about everyone involved and will hopefully bring some new life to an area that needs it:


https://www.newsdaytonabeach.com/stories/vcc-approves-zoning-change-for-jungle-den-area-in-astor,9145

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The historic Plaza Hotel on Daytona Beach has been sold. Its new owners are promising to bring it and the adjoining Seabreeze area back to its heyday. 

In Daytona, out-of-town developers often want to “improve” things by building generic structures with zero sense of place and end up creating an uninteresting stretch of beach that is easily ignored compared to places like St. Pete, St. Augustine, Miami Beach and even sister Volusia city New Smyrna Beach that have embraced their pasts. Sadly, as Orlando has done with its downtown lately, Daytona’s elected leaders have been all too happy to accept that kind of thinking.

I’m not sure how much of the 1911 Plaza is left after a series of redos on the cheap, but they can begin by ditching much of the latter-day cladding on the exterior.

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/business/real-estate/2020/11/11/california-investors-buy-daytonas-plaza-resort/6219505002/

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I'm very surprised that nobody mentioned this. Brevard County has been named one of six finalists in Space Force HQ search. If this happens, this could have the biggest economic impact on the Central Florida region since Disney came here.

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2020/11/19/brevard-county-named-finalist-in-space-force-hq-se.html

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6 minutes ago, orange87 said:

I'm very surprised that nobody mentioned this. Brevard County has been named one of six finalists in Space Force HQ search. If this happens, this could have the biggest economic impact on the Central Florida region since Disney came here.

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2020/11/19/brevard-county-named-finalist-in-space-force-hq-se.html

It would be a huge get. I didn’t post it because my sources say we’re unlikely to pull it. Here’s hoping my source and I are wrong.

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10 minutes ago, spenser1058 said:

It would be a huge get. I didn’t post it because my sources say we’re unlikely to pull it. Here’s hoping my source and I are wrong.

I know you probably don't like DeSantis, but you gotta admit having one of Trump's best buds as our Governor, and Florida being Trump's primary residence now probably helps our chances.

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2 minutes ago, orange87 said:

I know you probably don't like DeSantis, but you gotta admit having one of Trump's best buds as our Governor, and Florida being Trump's primary residence now probably helps our chances.

It wouldn’t hurt but Trump will be back at Mar-a-Lago by then and Congress will also be involved. 

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A look at the major redo underway at downtown Daytona’s Riverfront Park:


https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2020/11/26/daytona-beach-riverfront-park-in-midst-of-23-million-overhaul/6401253002/

From the News-Journal 
 
One thing I really like is all the flowers being planted. Once upon a time, flowers were everywhere in Orlando; not only in the parks, but also along several of the roadways. Somehow, they’ve all disappeared in the last eighteen years.
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3 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

A look at the major redo underway at downtown Daytona’s Riverfront Park:


https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2020/11/26/daytona-beach-riverfront-park-in-midst-of-23-million-overhaul/6401253002/

From the News-Journal 
 
One thing I really like is all the flowers being planted. Once upon a time, flowers were everywhere in Orlando; not only in the parks, but also along several of the roadways. Somehow, they’ve all disappeared in the last eighteen years.

From the article... "Dozens of mature live oaks, bald cypress and magnolias standing up to 30 feet tall will canopy the park." "There will be lots of shade," said former City Commissioner Kelly White, who's been heavily involved in the park project. "The park will not be hot like it has been forever."

Nice!

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6 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

A look at the major redo underway at downtown Daytona’s Riverfront Park:


https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2020/11/26/daytona-beach-riverfront-park-in-midst-of-23-million-overhaul/6401253002/

From the News-Journal 
 
One thing I really like is all the flowers being planted. Once upon a time, flowers were everywhere in Orlando; not only in the parks, but also along several of the roadways. Somehow, they’ve all disappeared in the last eighteen years.

Oh good. The vagrants can smoke their crack pipes in the shade now.

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For the first time in a while, Downtown Daytona Beach is looking forward to a future as prosperous as its past. Much of that energy can be attributed to investments by local businessman J. Hyatt Brown and his wife.

Not only is his growing company adding a tower downtown but his family is also investing in a major redo of Riverfront Park.

What could be better? Unfortunately, those with less interest in the quality of their hometown than Mr. and Mrs. Brown (btw, he was one of those who served in the Florida Legislature when it looked out for the people of Florida instead of just grifting to fill their pockets like the Tally crowd’s been doing the last 22 years) are already making noise about leveling Beach St. to build cookie cutter buildings that with overpriced rents and no connection to the city’s history. Let’s hope the good guys win this time:


https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/12/06/heart-daytonas-downtown-revival-beach-street-set-shine/3834261001/

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Edgewater’s Boston Whaler boat manufacturer has added 500+ jobs this year and is looking to add more as COVID is increasing the interest of folks in boating:


https://www.hometownnewsvolusia.com/news/boston-whaler-riding-the-high-water-in-edgewater/article_5c5137ae-3347-11eb-a819-83e84da7bdcc.html

From Hometown News Volusia 
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Good news for the Daytona Tortugas - in the midst of a significant contraction in minor league baseball as MLB takes an increased role, the Cincinnati Teds have announced the local team is safe for now:


https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/minors/tortugas/2020/12/09/daytona-tortugas-safe-contraction-remain-daytona-beach/3828924001/

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The Volusia County Council’s new chairman Jeff Brower has declared beach driving a “priority”.

Although no one knows with climate change how much longer that will be a thing (Volusia is already experiencing more problems with erosion than in the past), for now it’s a huge part of Daytona’s brand and something that’s been frittered away to developers.


https://www.news-journalonline.com/

 
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Some good news and some not-so-good news for Daytona’s beachside: Bellair Plaza, once the major shopping center on the peninsula, is getting a much-needed redo of the center’s south end.

Apparently, we shouldn’t think the days when it had department stores like Ivey’s and Belk’s are coming back, though. The Amscot office will remain, which means the long fall from what was once the more upscale end of the beach is not yet over.


https://www.hometownnewsvolusia.com/business/volusia-business-news-housing-market-under-siege-by-buyers/article_aa15ee52-38bb-11eb-b2b7-eff22e21a072.html

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35 minutes ago, prahaboheme said:

What this officially announced here?  Patrick AFB selected as site for the United States Space Force:  

https://spacenews.com/cape-canaveral-patrick-air-force-base-renamed-as-space-force-bases/

 

We knew they changed the name - the big enchilada will be if they get the nod as the HQ. My understanding is we’re not gonna get it but it would be huge if it happens.

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