Will St. Pete’s oldest gas station become ‘historic’?

The boxy little building situated at the corner of 4th Street South and 24th Avenue is nothing much. It’s next door to the Harbordale YMCA, and across the street are well-manicured private homes, alongside the 14-unit St. Pete Garden Apartments. It’s a typical South Side neighborhood, and the bare brick-and-stucco structure with a canopy overhang looks for all the world like it just doesn’t belong there.

It is, however, more than an anachronism, and more than some blemish that needs washing away. It is part of St. Petersburg history.

Local lawmakers put people over politics

Places This Week: Amazon site, Belleair Beach resort sells

Owner flips 100-year-old property into event space

Church’s plan to sell land, preschool raises concerns

New city specialist helps reduce evictions

While landlords recently filed 821 eviction notices in St. Petersburg, the city's first community support specialist helped keep 117 residents in their homes and contacted all but eight.

In July 2022, city officials reallocated resources within the codes department to create a new community support specialist position. Beatriz Zafra embarked upon her new role the next month.

Arts Alive! podcast: Alexander Jones, Helen Hanson French

“Writing about music,” goes the famous saying, “is like dancing about architecture.” The idea is that music, intangible and interpretive, cannot be reduced to mere words. It’s really a dismissal of music criticism – i.e., what’s the point? – but the reference to dance, which is just as wily, free and fluid as music, can’t be ignored.

Thrive

The Shuffle

Mikaela Manzella, M.S. Ed, LPC

Gibbs High School

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