For months, the St. Petersburg City Council has spent countless hours debating a solution to the affordable housing crisis in the form of a “lockbox” affordable housing trust fund.
On Thursday, the ordinance to create a referendum to amend the City of St. Petersburg City Charter to create such a fund failed to pass first reading in front of City Council.
The candidates for St. Petersburg City Council’s District 1 race squared off in their first debate Wednesday, hosted by the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club. The candidates, local real estate investor Robert Blackmon, 30, and local attorney John Hornbeck, 34, are seeking to replace outgoing St. Petersburg City Council Chair Charlie Gerdes.
Welcome to the slowest month of the year. The kids are looking at the draggy final weeks of their summer vacation, families are slowly returning home from wherever they’ve been, the snowbirds are starting to plan their Florida exodus, and it’s so hot outside that nobody really feels like doing anything.
That was the advice Whitney Sales, a general partner at Acceleprise Ventures, offered to founders and entrepreneurs at the Sup-X Startup Expo #Women4Women Forum Thursday in Fort Lauderdale.
