Bay leaders discuss sustainability at LaunchPAD forum

University of South Florida St. Petersburg students and community members learned more about business and sustainability Wednesday at a panel conversation. 

The gathering was a part of the educational institution’s LaunchPAD (Pathways for Academic Discovery) Career Exploration Program. This initiative provides experiential learning opportunities for first-year students and allows them to engage with companies and professionals around the St. Petersburg area. 

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$40.85M approved for affordable housing projects

Six affordable housing developments will receive $40.85 million in federal disaster recovery money after the St. Petersburg City Council unanimously approved the funding Thursday.

The awards will support 645 affordable rental units through a mix of new construction, rehabilitation and preservation projects across the city. The money comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery program, which provided funding in response to Hurricane Idalia in 2023 and Hurricane Helene in 2024.

Arts Alive! podcast: Jane Austen at Stageworks

Onstage through Oct. 11 at Stageworks Theatre in Tampa, Jane Austen in 89 Minutes is a fast-paced comedic farce that manages to compress all six of the 18th century novelist’s books into … well, 89 minutes. As the theater’s producing artistic director Karla Hartley is quick to point out during today’s Arts Alive! interview, the show tends to run about 92 minutes. Because, she says, the audience is laughing so much.

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