Post office site pitched for Sarasota convention center

Some Sarasota developers want to team up on a decade-long effort to bring a right-sized convention center and adjacent hotel to Sarasota, and they are asking the Downtown Improvement District Board of Directors for help.

The idea is to redevelop the south side of the block of Ringling Boulevard between Orange Avenue and Pine Place, the site currently occupied by the city-owned Federal Building and the U.S. Postal Service office and its vehicle maintenance yard. The federal building would remain and the new construction would occur on the post office property.