Couple converts historic hotel into co-working space

The historic Betty Ann Hotel at 406 11th Ave. N. now boasts a fresh coat of paint and modern decor, as it's about to become one of the area's newest co-working spaces.

Believed to have been built in the late 1920s, the Betty Ann has been reinvented over the decades to house apartments and storefronts. Today, a salon and retailer occupy the ground floor while the second floor is being converted into an intimate co-working space with private and shared suites, a kitchen and bathrooms.

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Marcus Brooks on SPx 92

A fourth-generation St. Petersburg native, Marcus Brooks passionately believes in absolute equity on every level, and as the executive director of the Center for Health Equity, he is fully invested in what he calls the “collaboration and connectivity” needed to achieve both physical wellness, racial balance, empathy and understanding in the city (and county) he loves. His daily affirmation: “Whatever gifts you are believed to have, are not yours. They were gifted to you for a finite amount of time, to be passed on and used in service of others.”