- May 1, 2025
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Two apartment buildings and a new airport hotel were among the projects presented to the Sarasota Development Review Committee at its April 16 meeting, including a project that is proposed to redevelop a portion of Temple Beth’s property into a multi-family complex.
Located at the corner of South Tuttle Avenue and Bahia Vista Street, the Temple Beth redevelopment is proposing a four-story complex that will include 275 apartments, 13 designated as attainable. Parking and amenities will be internal to the development with access and egress off South Briggs Avenue at Bahia Vista Street.
The developer is Gilbane Development Co. of Providence, Rhode Island.
According to the proposal, two structures on the site would face demolition and the existing temple will remain. To make way for the project, the site rezoning must take place from Medical Charitable Institutional to the Residential Multiple Family 7. There is on file a comprehensive plan amendment to change the future land use classification from Community Office/Institutional to Multiple Family-High Density.
The new development is across Bahia Vista Street from the under construction 250-unit Bahia Vista Apartments on the site of the former Doctors Hospital of Sarasota. The Sarasota City Commission approved that project in February 2023.
The DRC offered the project partial sign-off after its second submittal. The City Commission must approve the comprehensive plan amendment and rezoning.
Also receiving partial DRC sign-off on its second submittal was a mixed-use development at 2101 Ringling Boulevard on the site of the former Checkers restaurant, which is demolished at the corner of Ringling and East boulevards.
There, developer MRM Management plan to build a seven-story, 22-unit multifamily building with a street-level restaurant. Besides the apartments, the plan includes a 3,100-square-foot restaurant and 800 square feet of retail/commercial space at the street level. Two of the residential units will have attainable pricing under the downtown attainable housing density bonus provisions.
The applicant has requested an administrative adjustment to reduce the parallel façade from 90% to 78%, and to reduce the habitable space coverage from 100% to 78%. The zoned site has a Future Land Use classification of Downtown Core. Access is proposed from the adjacent alley and from the abutting site to the east. Ringling Boulevard is a primary street in this location.
According to sister publication, Business Observer, MRM Management wrote in an email the restaurant will be a Tony Harper’s Pizza & Clam Shack. The family-owned chain of four locations — founded in 1992 — is a New York mainstay known for its pizza, fresh seafood and a family-friendly atmosphere. It will be the first location of the restaurant outside of New York, the Business Observer reported.
MRM Management has owned the property since 2002.
Also, making its first appearance before the DRC in a pre-application conference was a proposal for a new hotel, currently identified as SRQ Hotel 3, planned for the corner of Rental Car Road and Airport Circle. Proposed is a 60-room hotel on the 2.25-acre site.
The new hotel will complete a triplex of lodging options on airport property, including the Kompose Hotel and Hampton Inn & Suites, both which front University Parkway. The SRQ 3 hotel site abuts the Hampton Inn to the north, all three accessible from Innovation Green, which connects University Parkway and Rental Car Road.
The grass-covered lot is currently in use as auxiliary airport parking.
