The Orlando Sentinel

The city of Winter Park, FL has only spent $10,000 to rehabilitate housing in its predominantly black neighborhood over the past ten years.

The large infill development set to replace a former naval base is causing concerns among residents and local politicans.

City leaders envision more growth along Park Avenue, with new offices and even loft apartments moving in above the street-level businesses, a decades old concept that used to be the norm.

The new urbanist community has small town charm mixed with some Disney magic, but not all the residents are living happily ever after.

The Econlockhatchee River basin, whose languid waters curl through swamps and soggy prairies east of Orlando, is being strangled by Central Florida’s hottest suburban frontier.

Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed a transportation bill -- and in the process helped Florida local govermnent to maintain control over billboards.

A commercial property developer is making an effort to save a few dozen trees from road building crews in Central Florida.

An area of Volusia County known as the "Palmetto Curtain" is feeling the pressure from development. Environmentalists want immediate steps taken to preserve the area.

Planned to replace the former Naval Training Center, the newly christened Baldwin Park neighborhood will feature a village center and neo-traditional architecture, similar to Celebration, FL.

A recent study looking at the high tech industry ranks the state fifth nationally for high tech jobs and grew 18% last year.

After two years of debate, planners and officials in the City of Orlando has decided to limit the practice of Tandem housing.

Horizon West, a large master planned community in fast growing Southwest Orange County, is hoping to develop several neo-traditional "villages" in the area, but nearby residents are concerned about the scale of the project.

The county's expansion of its world class convention center came with a $750 million price tag. Was it worth it?

Greater Orlando residents overwhelming reject the user of taxpayer funds for a $250 million arena.

Census figures show that the Interstate-4 corridor is growing rapidly; Orlando and Tampa may eventually merge into a megalopolis.

The city of Orlando is working to develop its downtown from a dull concentration of office buildings into a hip residential and commerical center.

Most address only part of the problem of sprawl - bad land use decisions. But few mention the other problem because it is politically incorrect to do so.

Lawmakers have started arguing whether to build a $22 billion bullet train between Orlando and Tampa.

Due to record droughts, the toughest watering restrictions South Florida has ever seen will be in place by the end of the month.

A pipeline that would carry natural gas under the Gulf of Mexico from Alabama to the Tampa Bay area has won initial approval from a federal panel.