Last week, Nathan Benderson Park and Sarasota County were recognized by the International Economic Development Council. They were honored with a Silver Excellence Award in Economic Development at the IDEC’s Philadelphia conference. The county and park took home the title in the public-private partnership for communities with populations of 200,000 to 500,000 category. The IDEC’s excellence in economic development awards recognize the world’s …
Benderson Park Wins ‘Hunter Award’
Nathan Benderson Park, a project that WRA is working on with Benderson Development, just won the 2013 American Planning Association’s (APA) prestigious “Hunter Award” for Excellence in Economic Development. The award points out that the park is being transformed from an unimproved borrow pit lake to a 600-acre regional park and rowing venue. The project is the result of a …