Third Lake Partners buys UPC’s properties

As St. Peterburg-based United Property and Casualty insurance (UPC) is exiting the state, Third Lake Partners is scooping up its remaining properties in St. Petersburg.

Tampa-based Third Lake Partners, which recently purchased UPC's headquarters at 800 2nd Ave. S. for $10.5 million, purchased UPC's additional office building and the surrounding vacant land.

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Rays leadership listens to Gas Plant descendants

Before the Tampa Bay Rays organization submitted its proposal to redevelop the Historic Gas Plant District, they invited several descendants from families displaced in the name of progress to dinner.

The intent of the Nov. 29 meeting was not to make bold promises early in a long process but to respectfully listen to the people most knowledgeable on the subject. Local historian Gwendolyn Reese, president of the African American Heritage Association of St. Petersburg, attended the informal dinner alongside about 15 people with direct ties to the hundreds of families relocated in the city’s pursuit of Major League Baseball.