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Will the Tampa Bay Rays new stadium attract big name concerts and college bowl games?
A new Major League Baseball stadium is pretty much guaranteed 81 home games a season. And, with any luck, the team hosts a few playoff games, too. But what about the other 280 or so days, the ones when the team is out of town or during late fall and winter, when the team doesn’t play?
St. Pete plaza could become 304-unit housing development
A Houston-based developer plans to transform a commercially zoned plaza in St. Petersburg’s North Kenwood neighborhood into a workforce housing development under the Live Local Act. The Hanover Company intends to build 196 one-bedroom and 108 two-bedroom apartments on the 7.27-acre site at 3100 22nd Ave. N. The development...
FL’s housing crisis: Officials brainstorm to find ways to increase housing stock and decrease costs
With Florida’s affordable housing situation still at crisis levels, local officials, state lawmakers, researchers and other groups are looking to come up with new ideas, from changing zoning to lowering minimum lot sizes for developers. The brainstorming came during a day-long discussion held on the University of South Florida’s...
Dunedin Train Station celebrates 100th anniversary
DUNEDIN — On April 17, 1924, some 450 local residents — half the town’s population — surrounded the front of the newly completed red brick Atlantic Coast Railroad train station in the center of Main Street to dedicate the building. It was the fifth train station...
Thousands of grandparents are raising their grandchildren in Tampa Bay counties
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The role of parent does not always fall to a child's mother or father. In Tampa Bay counties, there are thousands of grandparents taking on that role. Joan Broughton knows the job of being a parent well. She has three children. In her St. Petersburg...
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