Sarasota Attractions - Neighborhoods

For a small city, Sarasota has an amazing number of different neighborhoods and lifestyles to choose from. In fact, it's such a neighborhood kind of town that each one has its own distinctive welcoming sign as you enter it. Here are some to explore, and perhaps to move into!
Downtown
Along Bayfront Drive and Gulfstream, across from Sarasota Bayfront Park, along Main Street and First Street, there are high-rise condos, many of them built anywhere from the 1960s to the 2000s. It's only a block or few to Whole Foods Market and all the downtown eateries and shops.
Burns Square
Charming stucco houses, some old and some very new, a few blocks from downtown, along Pineapple Avenue and Burns Court.
Laurel Park
Lovely gardens, quirky older homes, with a few new ones or renovations sprinkled in. Also walkable to downtown, along Osprey Avenue and its side streets. The Kanaya is a new, "green" high-rise building on Orange Avenue. Walk east from Laurel Park on Morrill Street, and you'll run into the Towles Court Artists Colony.
Southside Village
A delightful little shopping/dining area at the crossroads of Osprey Avenue and Hillview Street, behind Sarasota Memorial Hospital Center. Large, medium, and small older homes on the side streets from Tamiami Trail to Orange, and along Osprey. Convenient walkable gourmet grocery shopping at Morton's Market.
McClellan Park
Just south of Hillview Street, Orange Avenue turns into McClellan Park, a beautiful, lush neighborhood of interesting old homes and beautiful gardens. This area includes streets with wonderful Indian names like Illehaw, Meetaw, and Okobee.