In March 2017, the production crew of the hit TNT comedy series “Claws” visited Downtown Sarasota to film exterior scenes with the main stars of the show. The fictional backdrop of “Claws” is a nail salon in Palmetto, and a main plot idea revolves around the manicurists’ dreams of one day moving into a neighborhood […]

If you would like to enjoy the convenient urban lifestyle of cities such as San Francisco and Manhattan, where cafes, bistros and organic food markets are virtually at your doorstep, the Plaza at Five Points in Downtown Sarasota is for you. As one of the earliest efforts to transform the urban profile of Downtown Sarasota, […]

In 2017, American cable television network TNT premiered “Claws,” a new comedic series about the lives of manicurists who work at a nail salon in Manatee County that is connected to illicit activities. The female nail technicians dream of the day when they will be able to move south to Downtown Sarasota and live in […]

For many decades, the waterfront development of Sarasota mostly consisted of low-rise condominiums where the best views of the Gulf of Mexico were reserved to the lucky owners of upper level units and penthouses.  Things started to change in the 1980s with residential projects such as Bay Plaza in Downtown Sarasota, an imposing high-rise condominium […]

In recent years, residential development in Downtown Sarasota has been modernized and transformed.  A few of the apartment buildings and low-rise condominium neighborhoods of the past are being replaced by gleaming high-rise towers similar to the beachfront buildings you see in Siesta Key. The high-rise condo towers were not part of the original vision of […]

If you believe that the neighborhood you live in determines your quality of life, the units at 100 Central condominium are certainly waiting for you. 100 Central in Downtown Sarasota was developed in 2005, a time when Sarasota city planners decided that the city known as the jewel of the arts in Southwest Florida deserved […]