Despite challenges, Deuces stakeholders see growth

The culturally significant Deuces Corridor once faced perception issues that hindered redevelopment, and stakeholders in Midtown St. Petersburg must now overcome zoning challenges and lengthy processes.

Regardless of the setbacks and delays, community leaders along 22nd Street South have persevered. Veatrice Farrell, executive director of Deuces Live, and Elihu and Carolyn Brayboy, owners of Chief’s Creole Café and several other historic buildings along the corridor, relayed how that determination is paying off at a Preserve the ‘Burg event Thursday night.

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Sixteen years after she arrived in Gulfport from upstate New York, ceramic artist Brenda McMahon still thinks there must have been some sort of pixie dust in the air.

She was driving between Florida art shows, selling her work, when she realized she was lost. “I got out of my van and I thought ‘I have no idea where I am, and this place is adorable.’” Within a year, she’d purchased a house.

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