A local investor wants to buy the 86-acre Historic Gas Plant District site in St. Petersburg for $260 million, $71 million less than the city’s valuation....
Mayor Ken Welch took a hard stance against renegotiating a stadium deal with the Tampa Bays after the team announced Thursday that it could no longer...
Reactions were swift Thursday to Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg’s announcement that he would not move forward with plans to build a new $1.37 billion...
What was once considered a bluff is now a reality. The Tampa Bay Rays have walked away from a long-negotiated, $1.37 billion stadium deal in downtown...
St. Petersburg has 13 new projects in the pipeline. However, the Historic Gas Plant District’s $6.5 billion redevelopment remains top of mind. Myriad civic and...
Uncertainty surrounding the Historic Gas Plant’s redevelopment – anchored by a new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark – caused the Woodson African American Museum of Florida to...
In 2024, Pinellas County’s visitors bureau received eight capital project funding requests totaling $67 million. Tourism officials approved allocating just $24.8 million to five area facilities...
Mayor Ken Welch has publicly acknowledged that fissures in a partnership with the Tampa Bay Rays may be too wide to mend. Welch’s relatively brief comments...
Mayor Ken Welch’s third annual State of the City address highlighted St. Petersburg’s resilience amid storms, economic challenges and opposition to equitable initiatives. The event began...
Mayor Ken Welch realizes it will take much more than reconnecting roads to mitigate the decades-old, systemic disenfranchisement of Black families and businesses in St. Petersburg....
