Majority of board members prefer to keep proposal on hold
This week, Sarasota County Commissioner Teresa Mast tried again to convince her colleagues to authorize staff to advertise an Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) for the county property located at 261 S. Orange Ave., which is the home of Architecture Sarasota.
And once again, the majority of the board members said they wanted to wait. That decision followed news from Commissioner Mark Smith, a long-time Siesta Key architect, during the board’s regular meeting on May 6.
Leaders of Architecture Sarasota have been meeting with representatives of Benderson Development Co., Smith said, so he did not want to “force anybody’s hand, one way or the other,” before those discussions reached a conclusion…