Discover Sarasota

[Metro Jacksonville]

Discover Sarasota



Metro Jacksonville explores a Gulf Coast paradise, known for its rich arts culture, white sands, and on-the-verge development. Sarasota is a dynamic, spread-out city, that has seen recent aesthetic changes.

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[Miss Fixit]

Beautiful downtown, well maintained parks - and love the reuse of the historic high school building as an art museum.

[SarahTay]

Yes, I think that's why they've maintained such a picturesque idea to people - why the tourism is growing and why downtown is really the core of the city and people WANT to live and be downtown ... because it's just so "clean".

[finehoe]

It has a strong base of retirement age people

With the current political push to eliminate retirement for middle-class and working-class people, I wonder what states like FL who have exploited this demographic will do.

[tufsu1]

there are plans to tame US 41 through downtown...reduce it from 4 lanes to 2 lanes such that the urban fabric can be better connected to the water.

there are also plans for several signalized intersections to be replaced with roundabouts...new urbanist Andres Duany originally proposed 40, but the City has cut that down to much more manageable list of about 5.

[Keith-N-Jax]

Very nice series.