South Sarasota
A census designated place in Sarasota County, Florida.
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‘The Airwaves Belong to the People’ comes to Sarasota
Curbed by the pandemic, the documentary about rock station WBCN is now hitting the movie theater circuit.
Creatives & Arts
North Port Concert Band’s winning ‘algo-rhythm’ creates 41st season
Algorithms rule. Sites like Amazon and Netflix, platforms like Facebook and Instagram, use complex formulas called algorithms to cleverly track users’ clicks and keep them transfixed longer with the content they like best. But why use AI when you’ve got real-brain intelligence…
Creatives & Arts
NETWORKING: Crews Bank & Trust new Englewood branch groundbreaking
Local Business
The Progressive Page Turner: The Day the World Stops Shopping
“Live simply so that others may simply live.” Mahatma Ghandi Can it be this simple? Could we stop the destruction of the environment by curtailing our consumption? In his book The Day the World Stops Shopping J. B. MacKinnon examines how our insatiable appetite for consumer goods…
General
Sarasota County Commissioners approve 5,000-home project
Granting developer-requested zoning changes, they vote unanimously for - and gush over - Palmer Ranch East.
Real Estate & Development
Candidates weigh in on Sarasota County’s Gulf Gate golf course acquisition
Both contenders for Joe Neunder’s seat endorse a purchase of the arsenic-laden, flood-prone land.
Government & CivicIn and around South Sarasota
See & do
- Armageddon Laser Tag
- Bispham-Wilson Historic District
- Complete Weddings + Events
- Phillipi Creek Park
- Phillippi Harbor Club
Eat, drink & stay
- 3Natives
- Cadillac Jack’s Honky Tonk Saloon
- Alpine Steakhouse and Butcher Shop
- Forbidden Tiki
- Apollonia Grill
Shops & services
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South Sarasota by the numbers
- Median age
- 56.7
- Households
- 2,159
- Persons per household
- 2.2
- Median household income
- $92,933
- Median house value
- $780,200