TITUSVILLE RESORT AND DESTINATION
3550 S. WASHINGTON AVE TITUSVILLE FL 32780
SEARSTOWN MALL DEMOLITION – TITUSVILLE FL
Titusville Indoor Flea Market, replacing Beall’s Outlet
Sears Town Mall / Titusville Mall:
The mall was built in 1966, when it served as a social and retail hub for North Brevard County and the City of Titusville. Regal Cinema, the first Regal Cinema in the US was built soon after.
The first phase of demolition starts on November 27th, 2023, and covers removing 155,000 Square feet. It will make way to build a 153-room Cambria hotel, 100 units of assisted living with memory care, three restaurants, and a 240-unit apartment complex.
Beall’s Outlet came into the mall in 2005 and left the mall in November of 2023 to make way for a 40,000 Sq ft of “Titusville Indoor Flea Market” with nearly 200 concessions/vendors. No business license is needed, and we sell the items through our staff.
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MAY 16TH 2022
Titusville clears hurdles to transform the Searstown mall into an ‘urban village’
Florida Today
After what looked like a possible setback, plans have moved forward to build a mixed-use commercial and residential development at the site of the Searstown Mall in Titusville.
Developers California Retail Properties’ plans hit a snag when it became clear the development might be taller than is currently allowable by the city. But the Titusville City Council last week approved the height of the building on the condition that it is set back from the property line by at least the same distance and uses modern storm water management techniques.
Developers are now cleared to proceed with the project which envisions an urban village combining ground-floor retail area with mid-rise apartments and a hotel at the site of the Titusville Mall.
Titusville City Council reclassified the old mall and potholed parking lot a few years ago from commercial high-intensity zoning to urban mixed-use to make way for the new development.
Under the latest plans, the dilapidated property will transform over the next years into hundreds of private residences, with an layout that includes pedestrian walkways and green spaces open to the general public.
The property will have one-to-three-bedroom mid-rise apartments in a six-story building facing U.S. Highway 1 and the Indian River Lagoon, with the first story comprised of retail space, Wright said.
Rental units will include 170 one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartments around 800 square feet in size; 100 two-bedroom, two-bathroom units at 1,400 square feet; and 70 three-bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse apartments at 1,700 square feet. Wright said the estimated cost of the apartments for residents will be between $1,600 and $3,400 per month.
After the demolition of Sears and the movie theater, the retail space will include two restaurants.
The project received support from community members who spoke at last Tuesday’s meeting – many of whom look forward to seeing the old dilapidated location turned into a more modern space.
Cindy Mott, manager of the Titusville Antique Mall on the property, said she and the 80 independent business-owners who operate out of the mall were excited for the change and the chance to move into a newer building.
“We have vendors from the age of 24 years old… to 86 years young. They live from all over Brevard and Orange County, and they come here specifically to the Titusville mall,” she said.
“Our vendors understand this project… but I can tell you as their spokesperson it is unanimous support,” she added.
Even though the new building will mean a big change with lots of effort for businesspeople like Mott, she hopes it will revitalize the location.
The total cost of the development is expected to be around $80 million for the residential building and $25 million for the hotel and commercial spaces.
Jesse Wright, CEO of California Retail Properties, said the development will also use low-impact techniques that will increase stormwater treatment by 10% more than is required and will also feature electric vehicle charging stations. The low-impact stormwater management plan is part of the conditional-use permit to allow the increased height of the building.
He added that he is expecting to begin the process of taking down the new building and submitting final site plans early next year, pending financing issues and weather.
Space Coast lands 10th in ‘best-performing cities’ list, buoyed by job growth, tech industry – Titusville ranked #10
ULA launched a $1.5 billion NASA mission from Cape Canaveral that aims to send a science probe closer to the sun than any spacecraft before. The Parker Solar Probe — NASA’s first mission named for a living person — rumbled from the Space Coast at 3:31 a.m. Sunday atop one of the most powerful American rockets, United Launch Alliance’s 233-foot Delta IV heavy. (Photo courtesy: Derek Demeter)
The Space Coast area has made a list of the 10 best performing cities in the U.S., News 6 partner Florida Today reports.
The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, uses an index to grade communities on measures that include job growth, wage growth, and growth of high-tech industries within metropolitan areas. The Space Coast shares 2020’s top 10 list for big cities with major metros like San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin, Texas.
The Space Coast jumped 47 spots from its 2018 ranking. This year, it ranked fifth for job growth over the past 12 months.
In the report, the Milken Institute writes that the Space Coast’s performance stems from its growing high-tech industries in the aerospace and defense sectors, along with its attractive weather and the location of Port Canaveral. However, the Space Coast is vulnerable because some of its largest industries — defense, tourism, and health care — are vulnerable to recessions, according to the report. Diversifying the economy and deepening the local talent pool would make the area less prone to recessions, the report states.
Lynda Weatherman, president and chief executive officer of Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast, said in a news release that the Space Coast’s appearance on the list shows how far the area has come since the end of the shuttle program and the 2008 recession.
“Judging by the company we keep, including communities with much-larger populations, Brevard County is now considered one of the elite metropolitan economies in the nation, “Weatherman said.
Milken’s 2020 top 10 best performing large metro areas:
1. San Francisco area
2. Provo-Orem area, Utah
3. Austin, Texas
4. Reno, Nevada
5. Tie between Orlando & San Jose, California
6. Boise City, Idaho
7. Seattle
8. Dallas
9. Palm Bay/Melbourne/Titusville area
Titusville, Floridia Population History 1990 – 2019
What is the current population of Titusville?
-Based on the latest 2020 data from the US census, the current population of Titusville is 46,580. Titusville, Florida is the 840th largest city in the U.S.
What was the peak population of Titusville?
-The current population of Titusville (46,580) is it’s peak population.
How quickly is Titusville growing?
-Titusville has grown 13.6% since the 2000’s. Titusville, Florida’s growth is about average 46% of similarly sized cities are growing faster since 2000.
What county is Titusville, Florida in?
-Titusville is located entirely in Brevard County
-Titusville has an unemployment rate of 5.1% The US average is 6.0%
-Titusville has seen the job market increase by 1.9% over the last year. Future job growth over the next ten years is predicted to be 40.7%, which is higher than the US average of 33.5%
Tax Rates for Titusville
– The sales tax rate for Titusville is 7.0%. The US average is 7.3%
– The income tax rate for Titusville is 0.0%. The US average is 4.6%
– Tax rates can have a big impact when comparing cost of living.
Income and Salaries for Titusville
– The average income of a Titusville resident is $23,221 a year. The US average is 28,555 a year.
– The median household of a Titusville resident is $40,420 a year. The US average is $53,482 a year.
Florida’s Space Coast Economy Blasts Off
The Washington Post calls it the “comeback coast” — for good reason. After falling into a state of decline, the Florida Space Coast is booming once again thanks to a number of private space companies and other startups setting up shop at the Kennedy Space Center and surrounding region in Brevard County. The investment money is pouring in, stimulating a rapid revitalization of the birthplace of America’s Space Age. In July 2019, Lockheed Marin moved its fleet ballistic missile headquarters from California to their campus in Brevard County and intends to invest about $40 million into the campus. They have already moved 350 employees and will likely be adding new jobs as all missile contracts will now come out of this location in the Space Coast, as reported in Florida Today. Blue Origin, the company led by Jeff Bezos has already invested more than $1 billion into the area to build it’s 750,000 square foot New Glenn factory at Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration Park and intends to almost double the campus size in the coming years and bring hundreds of employees and potentially thousands of tourists.
Growth is also continuing for Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which in May 2019 launched its Falcon 9 rocket along with 60 Starlink satellites to start the companies own internet service. It is reported that SpaceX intends to develop its own rocket factory in Brevard County. L3Harris Technologies, born from the recent merger of L3 Technologies, Inc., an aerospace tech company, and Harris Corporation, a defense contractor, is now the largest aerospace and defense company based in Florida and a top 10 defense company worldwide. The new company, which has $17 billion in annual revenue, decided to keep its headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, and has plans to expand the local workforce there. Nasa is currently developing its most powerful rocket yet, the Space Launch System, with the help of local aerospace firms, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. In 2011 when NASA ended its 30 year space shuttle program, which was sustaining the peak of the recession, Brevard County has an unemployment rate of 12% and home prices had plummeted from a median price of nearly $250,000 in 2007 to less than $100,000 by 2011, as reported on Zillow.
Since then, as noted in The Washington Post article, local leaders have successfully worked to diversify the Space Coast economy and even have implemented special taxing districts with incentives to lure different types of businesses to the area. Residential communities are being built up and down the coastline. The unemployment rate dropped to below 4 percent earlier in 2019, and housing prices are back to their pre-recession value. The tax base has bloomed with monthly taxable sales rebounding from a low of nearly $450 million in 2010 to more than $850 million in 2018.
