What is the Gas Plant site worth to St. Pete?

A local investor wants to buy the 86-acre Historic Gas Plant District site in St. Petersburg for $260 million, $71 million less than the city’s valuation.

However, the unsolicited proposal notes that “the market has certainly changed.” St. Petersburg-based Blake Investment Partners then lists the same factors the Tampa Bay Rays outlined before walking away from a new stadium deal Thursday.

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Vintage St. Pete: The Treasure Island Bridge ladies

Stuck.

Each gust of chilly afternoon wind threatened to send the big sedan careening forward, down vertical steel onto concrete, or – even worse – backwards through the yawning black gap it straddled, a straight drop into Boca Ciega Bay.

Arts Alive! podcast: Journalist, author Craig Pittman

Craig Pittman has a new book out, his seventh. It’s called Welcome to Florida. Nor surprisingly, that’s also the title of Pittman’s successful weekly podcast, which now has 275 episodes in the can and is listened to, he tells us on this edition of Arts Alive!, in something like 74 countries.

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