St. Pete to sell Municipal Services Center ‘money pit’

Several St. Petersburg City Council members would prefer to sell the Municipal Services Center sooner rather than later, and avoid dumping millions of dollars into overdue building repairs.

A long-awaited study presented to the council Feb. 29 found it would take $54.54 million to maintain the building for another 15 years. Administrators have since established a tentative plan to repair the government facility while designing and constructing a new government campus adjacent to City Hall.

Saturday: Free World Oceans Day event on St. Pete Beach

First Holocaust Survivor Day Luncheon held in St. Pete

‘Multi-million-dollar’ renovations begin on downtown tower

Another St. Pete lane repurposing project moves forward

Local leaders discuss solutions for city’s unhoused

Recognizing the need to address homelessness in the community, the St Petersburg Downtown Partnership convened a “leadership lunch” Wednesday at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital to explore innovative solutions for supporting St. Petersburg’s unhoused population.

The event featured presentations from St. Pete Free Clinic and the City of St. Petersburg and was moderated by former state Rep. Ben Diamond. The leadership lunch series is a longstanding event for the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership, an organization with a  mission to “champion community prosperity through purposeful, transformative projects.”

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