Trop Talk, part one: Commercial and office space

In this first installment, we’ll take a look at the commercial and office space component of each proposal. Downtown St. Petersburg desperately needs more space for businesses that have either been priced out because of rapidly rising rents, or simply can’t find offices with a large enough footprint to accommodate their operations. The city’s request for proposals, issued in July, specifically called for space that could accommodate small independent retail businesses. 

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WMNF program director Randy Wynne retires after 35 years

When Randy Wynne got into radio, the 1960s were morphing into the ‘70s, and listeners were pulling away from the chatterbox of Top 40 and settling on lower-key “underground” FM stations, where “freeform” was the only rule and one rock album cut followed another, and genres like jazz, folk and bluegrass sometimes got equal time.

Just Getting Started: Reviewing the City Charter

Dr. Tomalin's guest is Brett Pettigrew from the City Attorney's office, who is a key member of the legal team involved with the 2021 review of the St. Petersburg City Charter. In the interview, Pettigrew and Tomalin discuss the difference between the charter and the City Code, and explain why public input is so important to the work of the Charter Review Commission.

Introducing ‘Vintage St. Pete,’ the book

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