How preservation, affordable housing intersect

Preserve the ‘Burg’s leadership realizes that existing housing stock, even in historic districts, can provide affordable housing opportunities without government subsidies.

Ensuring residents can remain in the city - and neighborhood - they love was a focal point of the organization’s second annual Preservation Summit & Expo. Executive Director Mannie Leto partnered with Pinellas County urban planning and preservation officials to combine two separate events Friday at the St. Petersburg Museum of History.

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Wine storage business lures couple out of retirement

After 40 successful years as a banking executive, Roy Whitehead retired and was looking forward to a leisurely life of cruising the east coast of Florida and the Bahamas, with his wife Rhonda, aboard their 68-foot motor yacht Parker Blue. “Somebody told me that you should retire to something, not from something,” Whitehead observed. “And I thought that was really good advice.”