St. Pete gives Tangerine Plaza developers another year

Developers selected in 2022 to redevelop Tangerine Plaza, a city-owned strip mall in South St. Petersburg that once housed the area’s only grocery store, now have another year to secure funding and meet other requirements.

City council members approved Sugar Hill Group’s second request for an extension in a 6-2 vote Thursday after nearly two hours of ardent debate. The development team, which plans to build 186 affordable housing units and offer fresh food at the site for the first time since 2017, began submitting proposals in 2020.

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City of St. Petersburg unveils new water lab

The City of St. Petersburg is now utilizing its new Water Resources Department laboratory. This comes after years of using a building not initially designed for testing.

A ribbon cutting was held Dec. 9.

Arts Alive! podcast: Leslie Eslasser, Wild Space Gallery

Today’s guest on the Arts Alive! podcast is Leslie Eslasser, director of St. Petersburg’s Wild Space Gallery. Located inside The Factory St. Pete, Wild Space is owned and operated by the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping obtain and preserve 18 million contiguous acres of Florida land, in order to keep the habitat pristine (and unbroken) for more than 130 imperiled animal species.

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