Whitted airport economic study money goes to trees instead

A typically procedural meeting to approve year-end budget adjustments ended in debate as St. Petersburg City Council members discovered a $300,000 appropriation for an Albert Whitted Airport Economic Impact Study.

Mayor Ken Welch has discussed reevaluating the 100-acre, city-owned waterfront site’s usage since his first year in office. Council members and local stakeholders have voiced ardent, varying opinions on the nearly century-old municipal airport’s future.

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Can preservation and development offer mutual benefits?

Monica Kile believes preservationists and local officials should use “more carrots and less sticks” to save St. Petersburg’s historic buildings from the wrecking ball.

Kile is a historian and tour guide with I Love the Burg. She highlighted the city’s 131-year-old history at the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership’s Nov. 29 Developer’s Council Meeting.

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