What was once a deplorable mobile home park just outside St. Petersburg city limits will now house an affordable housing community for residents with special needs....
Tampa Bay Rays’ leadership realizes that soundbites and succinct news articles cannot adequately convey the complexities surrounding the Historic Gas Plant District’s history and its 20-year,...
Monica Kile believes preservationists and local officials should use “more carrots and less sticks” to save St. Petersburg’s historic buildings from the wrecking ball. Kile is...
Nearly two dozen civic and business leaders recently toured The Battery Atlanta, Truist Park and the Atlanta Beltline – three prominent projects with St. Petersburg similarities....
The selection of a company to complete architectural and engineering services on a new $1.3 billion Tampa Bay Rays ballpark was decidedly anticlimactic. An evaluation committee...
For the cover of Florida Humanities’ new anthology book Once Upon a Time in Florida: Stories of Life in the Land of Promises, editor Jacki Levine...
The St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club will not officially turn 100 until January 2024; however, the historic facility’s centennial celebrations begin Monday. The International Shuffleboard Association (ISA)...
On Nov. 12, 1914, John Evans – a Black man from the town of Dunnellon – was taken from the St. Petersburg jail by an angry...
Pinellas County officials pushed back against recent reports that funding for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium – and the subsequent interest – would come at...
Local history books tend to document those who “built the city,” laid the roads, brought in the railroads, platted the parks and bravely launched a small-town...
