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CRA Recognized for Southern Charm Kitchen Partnership and Porters Community Improvements

What do a contemporary, southern cuisine restaurant and a sidewalk project have in common? Both are local urban revitalization efforts that were recognized at the state and regional level this fall. Southern Charm Kitchen earned a Judge’s Choice award from the Urban Land Institute’s North Central Florida District Council, a land use nonprofit organization that...
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Lyons Returns as CRA Director

Former director left in December 2011 to head Boise agency.   Anthony Lyons has been rehired as the director of the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). “We have selected the most qualified candidate from a national pool of exceptional applicants,” says Gainesville City Manager Russ Blackburn. “In Anthony, the CRA will have a proven leader...

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