Project to turn Sarasota Winn-Dixie into apartments, hotel seeks city's OK

The more than 40,000-square-foot grocery store space will be turned into an apartment building, parking garage and retail space.
The more than 40,000-square-foot grocery store space will be turned into an apartment building, parking garage and retail space.
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  • Manatee-Sarasota
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Since the Winn-Dixie supermarket vacated the Midtown Plaza commercial center a few miles south of downtown Sarasota in 2018, property owner Midtown Associates has sought to rezone and repurpose 3.5 acres of the 7.5-acre site on 1299 S. Tamiami Trail at Bahia Vista Street.

 

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