The troubled saga of Jordan Park continues, as St. Pete City Council chair Lisa Wheeler-Bowman has scheduled a press conference at 10 a.m. Friday at the Carter G. Woodson Museum.
Controversy surrounding the historic African American housing development has been at full boil since the St. Petersburg Housing Authority, which bought back Jordan Park in 2016, announced the proposed demolition of 31 historic units. The units date back to the development’s founding in the late 1930s.
Seedfunders, LLC has invested in Tampa-based Benebay, a technology startup with an innovative approach to helping small business owners reduce costs, while still maintaining essential (and affordable) healthcare services for their employees.
The board of the St. Pete Downtown Partnership has named Jason Mathis as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mathis comes to St. Pete and the Downtown Partnership with more than 20 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit space, most recently from the Downtown Alliance of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mathis will hit the ground running. He’ll begin his role remotely on Aug. 6, and be on the ground in St. Petersburg on the 13th.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am,” said Melissa Seixas, Chair of the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership Board.
We're very fast on getting things to market, we excel at that so we came out swinging. We came out messaging all the big players in the game saying, "Hey guys, we're making some noise we'd really like to set something up where we can start giving you guys donations."
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