Downtown Sarasota Condos Blog

Big news for Downtown Sarasota!! The City Commissioners approved the plans for the mega development Proscenium to move forward. Along with the now delayed, but already approved, Sarasota Bayfront project slated for the old Sarasota Quay land across US41, Proscenium will change the entire face of downtown in the coming years. Project completion is estimated in 2011 and will have office space, retail shops, an 800 seat theater, a proposed 225-room Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and high end condominiums. Commissioner Ken Shelin is quoted as saying "This project is absolutely unique, it's going to move us in a direction we've been saying we want to move downtown". There's no doubt that these two projects will have a profound effect on the entire area of Sarasota...not just downtown.
See plans and an article in today's Herald for more information. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080722/ARTICLE/807220366/2055&title=_1_billion_Proscenium_project_gets_go_ahead