Sarasota, Florida Sarasota, Florida City of Sarasota Sarasota Bay and waterfront Sarasota Bay and waterfront Flag of Sarasota, Florida Flag Official logo of Sarasota, Florida Location in Sarasota County and the U.S.
Location in Sarasota County and the U.S.
Sarasota, Florida is positioned in the US Sarasota, Florida - Sarasota, Florida County Logo of Sarasota County, Florida.svg Sarasota Sarasota (/ s r so t /) is a town/city located in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S.
The region is famous for its cultural and surroundingal amenities, beaches, resorts, connections to the Ringling family, Amish community, and the Sarasota School of Architecture.
Its current official limits include Sarasota Bay and a several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
Enumeration Bureau, in 2013 Sarasota had a populace of 53,326.
Sarasota is a principal town/city of the Sarasota urbane area, and is the seat of Sarasota County.
The islands separating Sarasota Bay from the gulf near the city, known as keys, include Lido Key and Siesta Key, which are famous around the world for the character of their sandy beaches.
The keys that are encompassed in the boundary of Sarasota are Lido Key, St.
Previously, Siesta Key was titled Sarasota Key.
At one time, it and all of Longboat Key were considered part of Sarasota and confusing contemporaneous references may be found discussing them.
The portion of the key that alongsides the Sarasota town/city boundary that extends to that new county line along the bay front of the mainland was removed from the town/city boundaries at the request of John Ringling in the mid-1920s, who sought to avoid town/city taxation of his prepared developments at the southern tip of the key.
6.1 Sarasota School of Architecture Main article: History of Sarasota, Florida Panoramic view of the Sarasota horizon from the John Ringling Causeway.
The most recent officially recorded freezes in Sarasota took place on January 4 and January 5, 2012, when the temperature dropped to 32 degrees (zero degrees Celsius) at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport, however Sarasota averages less than one frost annually.
From 2005-2007, Sarasota County had a total populace of 368,000 - 192,000 (52 percent) females and 176,000 (48 percent) males.
The Age Distribution of People in Sarasota County, Florida in 2005-2007 65 and over 30% 45 to 64 27% 25 to 44 21% 18 to 24 6% Under 18 17% Percent of populace For citizens reporting one race alone, 92 percent was White; 4 percent was Black or African American; less than 0.5 percent was American Indian and Alaska Native; 1 percent was Asian; less than 0.5 percent was Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and 2 percent was Some other race.
Seven percent of the citizens in Sarasota County was Hispanic.
Eighty-seven percent of the citizens in Sarasota County was White non-Hispanic.
The median income of homeholds in Sarasota County was $49,030.
In 2010, Sarasota had a populace of 51,917.
Sarasota municipal government was last incorporated in 1913, changing from a town type to adopting the town/city type of small-town government found in the United States and the title of its government changed to "City of Sarasota".
Sarasota later was designated as the governmental center of county when Sarasota County was carved out of Manatee County in 1921 amid the creation of a several new counties.
Many aspects of the town/city are overseen by the county government ranging from the schools, the libraries, the bay, primary waterways, county designated roads, the airport, fire departments, property and ad valorem taxes, voting, the community department, extension services, storm water control, mosquito control, the courts, and the jail, therefore election of county commissioners is meaningful to town/city voters.
In January 2006, the town/city of Sarasota made nationwide news when the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty ranked it number one on the groups' list of twenty "meanest cities" in America in their presented report A Dream Denied: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S.
Sarasota is among the communities encompassed in a two-county federally mandated Metropolitan Planning Organization that includes all of Sarasota and Manatee counties and the chairs of the three elements of that organization belong to the eight-county county-wide planning organization for central Florida. Sarasota is the home of the Sarasota Orchestra, which was established by Ruth Cotton Butler in 1949 and known for years as the Florida West Coast Symphony.
It holds a three-week Sarasota Music Festival that is recognized internationally and boasts that it attracts famous teachers and the finest students of chamber music.
This was the administrative home of the Sarasota French Film Festival for a several years.
Other Sarasota cultural attractions include the Sarasota Ballet, Sarasota Opera, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, the Sarasota Players, the Banyan Theater Company, and many other musical, dance, artistic, and theatrical venues.
Florida Studio Theatre (FST) has been operating in downtown Sarasota since 1973.
Since 1998, the town/city has hosted the Sarasota Film Festival annually.
In 2010, the Sarasota Chalk Festival that is held annual in the historic region of Burns Square became the first global street painting festival in the United States of America.
Except for a several commissioned on enhance property in the Palm Avenue Parking Garage, the murals are positioned on private property and they are positioned in many sections of Sarasota and in Manatee County as well.
As of 2014 the Sarasota Chalk festival has relocated to Venice, FL, a small town just South of Sarasota.
The name Sarasota Chalk Festival remains the same.
Sarasota is home to Mote Marine Laboratory, a marine rescue, research facility, and aquarium, the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, the G-Wiz Museum, and the Sarasota Jungle Gardens.
Sarasota School of Architecture The Sarasota School of Architecture advanced as a variant of mid-century modernist architecture.
See also: List of historic sites in Sarasota, Florida Sarasota County Courthouse By the end of the twentieth century, many of Sarasota's more modest historical structures were demolished.
Recently, two historic buildings, the Crocker Church and the Bidwell-Wood House (the earliest remaining structure in the city), first restored by Veronica Morgan and members of the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation that she founded, became town/city property.
In the late 1970s, Sarasota County purchased the Terrace Hotel that was assembled by Charles Ringling and renovated it for use as a county government office building. The adjoining courthouse that he donated to the new county in 1921 has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Most of the luxurious historic residences from the 1920s boom reconstructionalong the northern shore of Sarasota Bay also have survived.
Many momentous structures from the comparatively recent "Sarasota School of Architecture" reconstructionof the mid-twentieth century, however, have not survived.
In 2006, the Sarasota County School Board slated one of Paul Rudolph's biggest Sarasota projects, Riverview High School, for demolition.
Several movies have been shot using Sarasota locations.
One focusing on the Going Vertical program of street art that is held by the Sarasota Chalk Festival premiered internationally when muralist MTO released his documentary film, FL: unpremeditated movie, about some of his work in Sarasota. It is only one of many global films produced about the festival and its artists.
Breaking Amish: Brave New World is a tv series set in Sarasota in the neighborhood of Pinecraft.
Public education is provided and managed by the Sarasota County Public Schools school district.
Elementary schools in Sarasota include the following: Middle schools include Booker Middle, Brookside Middle, Mc - Intosh Middle, and Sarasota Middle.
High schools include Booker High, Riverview High, Sarasota High, Suncoast Polytechnical High School, Sarasota Military Academy, and Oak Park School.
Sarasota was also home to the Flint School, a type of boating school.
Sarasota is home to the New College of Florida, a enhance liberal arts college.
Additional universities in Sarasota include Keiser University of Sarasota (a private, not for profit university); FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training (Florida State University's MFA Acting Conservatory in conjunction with the Asolo Repertory Theatre); Ringling College of Art and Design, a school of visual arts and design; and satellite campuses of Eckerd College, based in St.
Companies based in Sarasota include the Boar's Head Provision Company.
Major employers include Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, APAC Customer Services, L-3 Aviation Recorders, The Zenith and Capgemini. Sarasota is part of the Nielsen-designated Tampa-Saint Petersburg-Sarasota tv market. The small-town tv stations are ABC-affiliate WWSB and the SNN: Suncoast News Network, a continuous small-town cable news operation run by Comcast, Frontier Fi - OS and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Direc - TV and Dish Network direct broadcast satellite tv including Tampa Bay Area small-town and nationwide channels to Sarasota residents.
WHPT (102.5 FM, Hot Talk) and WRUB (106.5 - FM, Spanish) are licensed to Sarasota and have transmitting facilities in the Sarasota / Bradenton area, but have studios in the Tampa Bay region and are concentrated on that region.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is the daily journal presented in the city.
A weekly journal includes the electronic This Week In Sarasota, TWIS.
From neighboring Manatee County, the Bradenton Herald also is distributed daily in the region and The Bradenton Times is an electronic weekly journal that covers Sarasota topics as well.
The warm climate helped the Sarasota region turn into a prominent golf destination.
John Hamilton Gillespie was an early pioneer of the game in Sarasota.
Bobby Jones was associated with the improve course in Sarasota.
Sport fishing thriving enthusiasts to Sarasota and the region because of the amazing bounty of the bay.
The agreement with the Orioles also places a Cal Ripken Youth Baseball Academy in Sarasota. Previously, Ed Smith Stadium was the spring training home of the Cincinnati Reds and the minor league Sarasota Reds.
Sarasota is home to two swim teams.
The most well-known, the Sarasota Sharks, have been around for many years and have won various nationwide championships.
The Sarasota Sailing Squadron is a highly active facility that has hosted many nationally famous regattas for both dinghies and larger vessels. In 2013, Sarasota became the home of the Sarasota Thunder, which was to play in the Ultimate Indoor Football League, but the team folded.
Sarasota is home of the Whiskey Obsession Festival, the biggest whiskey festival in Florida.
The primary airport in the region is Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport which is shared by Sarasota and Manatee counties. Five airlines offer service out of the airport to locations primarily in the United States and Canada.
Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport and Tampa International Airport are positioned about an hour north from Sarasota, and Southwest Florida International Airport in Ft.
Sarasota County Area Transit has a bus service called SCAT which offers service throughout the county and also offers limited connections with Manatee County Area Transit.
Sarasota County has joined the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority to plan and build future transit infrastructure including light rail, commuter rail and longer range bus service.
A key copy is providing Sarasota with access to the Florida High Speed Rail.
The Seaboard Coast Line ran intercity train service to the town/city until 1971. There is no Amtrak train which stops in Sarasota, but Amtrak provides through-bus service at Sarasota Station, in front of the downtown Hollywood 20 Cinema Complex, to the nearest Amtrak terminal in Tampa.
Port Manatee and the Port of Tampa both furnish nearby deep water ports. The waterway enters Sarasota Bay which provides access to downtown Sarasota at the town/city pier.
Because of its locale on the Gulf of Mexico and its adjacency to a several other large urbane areas, road transit is critical to the Sarasota area.
41 Tamiami Trail - A primary north-south route through Sarasota enters central Sarasota from the south before heading west at the south end of U.S.
Florida 789.svg SR 789 - Starts out as John Ringling Causeway before heading to Bird Key and Lido Key, SR 789 turns north and becomes Gulf of Mexico Drive a primary road on the islands between Sarasota and Bradenton.
Following the introduction of the work of Michael Wallwork to the town/city by a member of the Sarasota-Bradenton Metropolitan Planning Organization's citizen's advisory committee, Sarasota has adopted the use of undivided roundabouts for intersections in a several locations in the town/city and has plans for more.
Panoramic view of Five Points Roundabout in downtown Sarasota with an example of enhance art.
Many circus performers lived in Sarasota amid the wintertime existence of the Ringling circus and some of the families have remained even though the circus left the town/city for winter quarters in Venice, Florida.
Sarasota also is known for architects, fine artists, performing arts, and writers who have lived and worked in the community.
Mac - Donald even set many of his novels in Sarasota, integrating landmark buildings into his stories and making establishments such as small-town restaurants famous.
The town/city commission has chosen to designate the following metros/cities as sister cities, which are cooperative agreements between communities in geographically and politically distinct areas with the stated intact objective of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
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Newsletter, February 2005, volume twenty, number two, Box 1754, Sarasota, Florida 34230 - with illustrations of Crocker Church and Bidwell-Wood House by Kafi Benz La - Hurd, Jeff, Sarasota, A History, The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, IBSSN 1-59629-119-2 Smith, Jessi, Get a ringside seat: MTO is not pulling any punches in his latest mural, This Week in Sarasota, December 20, 2012 Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County - Top Private Employers 2012 Baltimore Sun: Orioles reach deal for spring training set for Sarasota "2008 Sarasota Marathon".
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