Panel considers property tax plans

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – March 17, 2008 – Florida's best chance of voting on another property-tax revision this year happens Monday, when the state tax panel that has the ability to put constitutional amendments directly on the November ballot votes on three proposals.

If the 25-member Taxation and Budget Reform Commission approves any of the three ideas and voters agree, it would become the largest tax change in Florida history since legislators passed the failed services tax 20 years ago.


Friday, March 14, 2008

More Baldwin Park retailers struggling with rent, slow biz

Property owner evicted four tenants for non-payment, court records show.

Orlando Business Journal - by Anjali Fluker Staff Writer

Mark Greenberg doesn't bother to go to work before 1 p.m. or so.

Even after that, the co-owner of Wine­Styles store and bar in Baldwin Park says business is so slow that it's tough to pay the rent.

He's one of a growing number of tenants in the Baldwin Park Village Center struggling to make ends meet in the high-end community's central business district.