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Incumbents Lisa Wheeler-Bowman and Ed Montanari defended their St. Petersburg City Council seats, while newcomers Deborah Figgs-Sanders and Robert Blackmon won open seats in Districts 5...
Next week, the City of St. Petersburg will kick off StPete2050, a city-wide visioning process to shape what the city could look like 30 years from...
The Cross-Bay Ferry is about to kick off its third season shuttling passengers between downtown St. Petersburg and downtown Tampa. While service officially starts on Nov....
The last surviving member of St. Petersburg Police Department’s famous Courageous 12 joined St. Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway and St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman in...
The Tampa Bay Regional Transit Authority (TBARTA) is seeking community input in Tampa Bay’s first Regional Transit Development Plan, Envision 2030. Envision 2030 will be a...
The St. Petersburg renaissance has been in full swing for over a decade. We’ve excelled in many areas and struggled in others. In our series, St....
A rebranding plan by the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp. is drawing fire from the Pinellas County Economic Development Council. The plan by the Tampa Hillsborough...
Last week, City Council unanimously passed the final components of the Central Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Interlocal Agreement, bringing the Central Avenue BRT project one step...
Consultants have taken the wraps off a draft master plan for the area around 34th Street and Central Avenue, including a proposed name for the district....
The relationship between incoming market rate development and demand for affordable housing, including factors like cost of living, housing burden and income of St. Petersburg residents...
