The curtain of mystery around St. Petersburg’s $90 million Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement is being gradually lifted.
The five-story, state-of-the-art building that takes up an entire city block (at 4th Street and 3rd Avenue South) has been under construction for nearly five years.
It’s not as cheap or easy to get no-frills office space as it used to be in St. Petersburg.
Vacancy rates are falling and rents are rising for Class B and Class C office space, both downtown and in the Gateway area in northeast St. Petersburg.
Amelia Naomi Dean is the talented maker behind Bohemian Rêves, a St. Pete small business that crafts botanical candles and small-batch skincare products.
Miles Fetherston-Resch is 7.5 years old and the Founder and CEO of Kids Saving Oceans, a conservation lifestyle brand for both kids and adults that donates a portion of every sale to a local conservation organization. He writes:
I think we can make St. Petersburg a better place to live if each of us planted a tree.
In Pinellas County, less than 60 percent of children are “ready” for kindergarten when the time comes. While that’s better than the state average of just 53 percent, organizers of a new initiative backed the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg and run by the Early Learning Coalition of Pinellas are fighting to increase that number to 75 percent in the next five years.
Peerfit, a Tampa digital health company, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and Virgo Investment Group, a San Francisco-based investment firm.
