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In The News
The 'Old Florida' feel of Anna Maria Island By Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY
ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. — "Please be sweet and rinse your feet," hand-painted signs over troughs of water outside rooms at the beachfront, 23-unit Cedar Cove Resort & Cottages gently urge. Tanned owner Eric Cairns makes his rounds in Jimmy Buffet-style tropical shirts and oversees the resort's "Queen for Your Stay" program, in which the name of a lucky woman staying a week or more is picked from a hat. She gets a crown, massage and other royal perks during her visit. (Click here to view complete story ...)
Beach Magic By Wanda McKinney - Southern Living - March 2009
The motto of Florida's Anna Maria Island says it all: "Welcome to paradise without an attitude." Our Insider's guide helps you make it your own slice of heaven. (Click here to view complete story ...)
AMI gets preview to more commercial opportunities By GRACE GAGLIANO | Bradenton Herald - Posted on Tue, Apr. 14, 2009
ANNA MARIA — The Pine Avenue restoration project no longer needs artist renderings to illustrate what’s to come for Anna Maria’s business district. The nearly completed pink and green, cottage-like structures now serve as a preview to the retail, office and residential developments in store for Manatee County’s tourist spot. The two-story buildings at 315 and 317 Pine Ave. have commercial tenants ready to move in and will be the first of several mixed-use structures to be developed along the narrow island road. (Click here to view complete story ...)
Pine Avenue project pitched to community By Tom Vaught | sun staff writer
ANNA MARIA – The Pine Avenue Restoration Project has been in the news for the past year, but the movers and shakers have not had the opportunity to tell their story to the people who would be instrumental in selling it – the real estate professionals on the Island. (Click here to view complete story ...)
Preserving the past, while planning for the future - Bay News 9 Video Sunday, September 7, 2008 - Bay News 9 (Click here to see the Video ...)
Classic Anna Maria - Residents Ed Chiles and Michael Coleman work to return the town to its original charm and Character. By James T. Black - Southern Living - September 2008
One practically grew up on the island town - the other discovered it while driving through. Now they're working together to restore Anna Maria's classic Florida charm. (Click here to view complete story ...)
National publicity sparks interest in Island By Cindy Lane | sun staff writer - Jan 4, 2009 Vacationers longing for a laid-back, old-time Florida beach vacation during the holidays found it on Anna Maria Island, courtesy of USA Today, Baltimore Magazine and the Internet. (Click here to view complete story ...)
A Hidden Island (That's Easy to Find) Anna Maria on Florida's West Coast promises a sunny escape for the winter weary. By Suzanne Loudermilk
Definitely come here for the sunsets, but plan to stay for the sunrises, too. Anna Maria Island—a wisp of a seven-mile island along Florida's West Coast—is a place that revels in the end of day. (Click
here to read the entire article ...) Preserving the past, while planning for the future Sunday, September 7, 2008 - Bay News 9
The Rosedale Cottage is one of the first historic homes purchased by
the group. A group of residents and developers are (Click here to view complete story ...)
Pine Avenue restoration project takes shape By Laurie Krosney - Anna Maria Island Sun - Vol. 9 No. 5 - Oct. 29, 2008
Construction on the Pine Avenue restoration project is beginning to rise from the ground enough that first building's future outlines are taking shape. (Click here to view complete story ...)
Pine Avenue looks to Future The Islander - Volume 15, No. 37, July 18, 2007
Bradenton Beach was in a quandary in the early 1900s... Now Anna Maria City is on the verge of its own resurgence - although, unlike its sister city to the south, this time the seed money is from private sources. (Click here to view complete story ...)
A Vision for the city Anna Maria Island Sun Editorial - Volume 8, No. 49 - August 27,2008
Over the past four years, the city of Anna Maria has been trying to figure out what the commercial district along Pine Avenue should be. The effort has been a lengthy one and the outcome of all this work will shape not only the look and ambience of the city, but probably the viability of business here as well (Click here to view complete story ...)
Rosedale Cottage part of Pine Ave. project By Laurie Krosney | sun staff writer
ANNA MARIA — Hopes are high that Rosedale Cottage can be one of the centerpieces of the Pine Avenue Restoration Project (PAR).
The restoration group now owns the building, which is located at 503 Pine Avenue. It was the scene for an event billed as a conversation among neighbors on August 19.
The cottage straddles a portion of the property line of three side-by side, 50 by 150-foot lots. They form a portion of the vision for Pine Avenue. (Click here to view complete story ...)
Saving Anna Maria's historic Pine Avenue By GRACE GAGLIANO - gagostin@bradenton.com
ANNA MARIA -- Ed Chiles knows there is too much history and Old Florida charm to lose on Pine Avenue.
That's why he and two other businessmen partnered last year on a restoration project for the two-lane, quarter-mile-long road stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Tampa Bay.
Chiles, along with Michael Coleman and Ted LaRoche, formed the investment group Pine Avenue Restoration LLC to purchase historic cottages along the street. (Click here to view complete story ...)
Ambitious project is 'exciting' for busy Chiles By Rick Catlin. Islander Reporter - Date of Issue: July 25, 2007
To say Anna Maria Island businessman Ed Chiles is busy is an understatement.
In addition to being the head of the ownership group of the Sandbar, BeachHouse and Mar Vista restaurants, Chiles is also chairman of START, the organization that fights red tide; president of the Manatee Community Foundation; vice-chairman of the Lawton Chiles Foundation; a member of the tourism development council; the former chairman of Goodwill (two terms); campaign treasurer for Christine Jennings for Congress; and volunteers to help the Anna Maria Island Community Center when called upon. (Click here to view complete story ...)
ISLAND PLAYER
Anna Maria restaurateur and political native son Ed Chiles jumps into residential development. By Molly Sinclair McCartney - biz941/2008/10 (Click here to view complete story ...)
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