Tourism council approves $34 million for Dali Museum

Local politicians and business leaders comprising the Tourist Development Council (TDC) recommend giving Dali Museum officials $34 million in bed tax funding for a significant expansion.

The money would cover about half the cost of the long-awaited and evolving project’s second phase. An independent consulting firm estimates the expansion would increase the museum's attendance, along with room night rentals and tax revenues, by 33% to 37% over 10 years.

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St. Petersburg champion Mary Wyatt Allen dies

One thing Mary Wyatt Allen’s friends knew for sure: You didn’t call her Mary; her name was Mary Wyatt. She would always take a moment to correct anyone who got it wrong.

Allen, who’d been on the front lines of St. Petersburg’s corps of volunteers and civic improvement groups for nearly seven decades, died May 19. She was 90.

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