Board hears updates on City of Palms feasibility study, Prime Healthcare site and other development projects
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Summary
Staff said the City of Palms stadium feasibility study and related proposal are advancing toward council consideration; Prime Healthcare needs one more prelease to begin a 50,000‑square‑foot medical building; several housing and mixed‑use projects are under construction or demolition.
The advisory board received a slate of development updates from staff, including a progress report on the City of Palms site, Prime Healthcare’s proposed medical building and assorted private housing and mixed‑use projects.
Steve Weathers said the city manager and legal counsel are finalizing documents tied to the City of Palms site; the manager hopes to get a green light from council by year‑end to start demolition activity and advance a larger feasibility study. Consultant Card Associates (multi‑sport facility) and others were referenced for feasibility and investor‑readiness work; staff said large feasibility studies can cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
On private development, staff said Mark Samples’ 50,000‑square‑foot medical building on MLK needs one more tenant prelease to trigger construction. The Marina at Edison Ford project and a new downtown restaurant lead are both moving toward outreach and workshop briefings. Staff also noted ongoing downtown housing projects, demolitions of older multi‑story buildings near the golf course, and private mixed‑use developments under construction (e.g., Southwood Village Phase 1/Latimer Crossing; Bloom residential developments).
Staff said the Midtown master plan and the new police station design are moving forward; the police station will be a large construction item and reuse options for the existing station are not yet determined. The board asked staff to provide the scope of the City of Palms feasibility study at a future meeting so members can better understand the study’s intent and cost.
Quotes are used verbatim from the public transcript.
