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St. Petersburg City Council’s Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee met Thursday morning for a lengthy presentation and discussion about a controversial plan to outsource redevelopment of...
The city held its first in-person public meeting on redevelopment of Tropicana Field Wednesday at the St. Petersburg Coliseum, with approximately 100 citizens in attendance to...
The evacuation order might have been lifted for residents threatened by the leaking Piney Point phosphate fertilizer plant reservoir, but the threat is far from over...
On April 6, Manatee County officials lifted a five-day evacuation order for residents and businesses located near the Piney Point phosphate plant site, as fears of...
The four companies shortlisted as a potential developer for the Tropicana Field site each had a chance to make their case to the business community Tuesday...
On April 2, Pinellas County launched a website where residents can track progress on its emerging sustainability and resiliency goals, and find ways to contribute to...
Representatives from JMA Ventures/Sugar Hill Community Partners, Midtown Development, Portman Holdings/Third Lake Partners and Unicorp National Developments brought their competing visions for the future of the Tropicana Field site directly to...
Suncoast Housing Connections, a nonprofit agency that is building affordable homes in south St. Petersburg, has unveiled a new partnership with the city of Clearwater, to...
St. Petersburg City Council’s Public Services and Infrastructure Committee — a body made up of council members Darden Rice, Robert Blackmon, Ed Montanari and Amy Foster...
This week represents the beginning of the end — the homestretch, if you’ve already got Grand Prix fever — of the process that will culminate in...