Affordable housing, tenant rights in focus as St. Pete City Council gives go-ahead to new apartments

A six-story, 74-unit apartment project at 17th Street and 2nd Avenue North will move forward, following a St. Petersburg City Council vote Thursday and a debate over housing in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Council, meeting as the Community Redevelopment Agency, found Zhukovskyi USA's proposed 17th Street Apartments are consistent with the city’s Intown West Redevelopment Plan, a plan that capitalizes on the opportunities generated by Tropicana Field.

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VINTAGE ST. PETE: The Florida Wild Animal Ranch

It wasn’t a soap opera, exactly, but there was drama, and a lot of behind-the-scenes intrigue, at 4799 4th Avenue N. between 1938 and 1959. Don’t bother looking up the address – it no longer exists. For those 22 years, it was the site of the Florida Wild Animal Ranch, a landscaped, seven-acre zoo with one of the largest and most diverse animal menageries in Florida.

Here, at various times, visitors could ogle an Indian elephant, a giraffe, an 800-pound Russian brown bear, chimpanzees, a kangaroo, a Florida panther, zebras, monkeys, an ostrich, a giant anteater, a porcupine, a South American guanaco, oversized alligators, rattlesnakes and plenty more.

Political Party with Adam Smith: Fixing Florida’s unemployment system

As a national expert on unemployment insurance, Michele Evermore of the National Employment Law Project constantly hears from reporters who suggest their particular state must have the worst unemployment system in the nation.

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Tools for Scaling a Business

In this week’s Catalyst Partner Series podcast, we met with Chip Reeves, president and CEO of Beach Bank, and Brian Murphy, founder and CEO of ReliaQuest, a Tampa-based cybersecurity firm. We picked their very knowledgeable brains about scale — the advantages of scaling up a business, but also how to do it in the right way so that growth can be properly managed.  ReliaQuest has been fortunate to have received substantial interest and support from investors over the years, but scale isn’t something that can be achieved through funding alone. It takes planning, and Murphy says that’s his job as CEO, comparing himself to a sort of human “farmers’ almanac” who scans the horizon and anticipates the changing needs of the business. 

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