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Sarasota News Leader December 6, 2013 Page 11 buildings will be three or four stories in At the Dec. 10, 2012, meeting, one stakeheight, not Stalinesque high-rises. holder said, "The Rosemary District is almost like a blank palette. A lot of good things are ANYBODY WANT TO NEGOTIATE? happening there. It seems to me to offer the Almost exactly one year ago, the city held a opportunity to be a bit more edgy than downcommunity discussion about the future of the town or Towles Court." Rosemary District, located north of downtown and Fruitville Road (aka Third Street). Another stakeholder voiced a question sevAt issue was the fate of about 1 acre of city- eral others repeated. "What does the district owned land in two parcels between Fifth and want to be? Right now, it's half blight." Sixth streets. Several months later the city released an One property previously was a community garden, but then it was fenced off and allowed to go fallow. The other was a small surface parking lot. ITN — an Invitation to Negotiate — for the property's future. The deadline for responses was mid-October, and only one proposal was received. A drawing shows how residential apartments would be incorporated into the plan. Image courtesy City of Sarasota