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St. Petersburg City Council approves plan for Tangerine Plaza
Seven years after a Walmart Neighborhood Market shuttered its doors at a city-owned strip mall in southern St. Petersburg, leaving the area without a grocer and designated a federal food desert, there is a plan. The St. Petersburg City Council on Thursday approved a plan for a mixed-use development at...
Group calls Rays stadium deal 'horrible,' prompting response from St. Pete mayor
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The group that calls itself "No Home Run" stood in front of St. Petersburg City Hall to say city councilors would win if they called "foul" on the city's pitch. "This deal, as it stands, is horrible and residents need to be informed." They commissioned a...
Their Florida 'paradise' keeps flooding, but some can't afford a solution
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Hurricane Idalia came ashore last August some 200 miles north of Jennifer Connell-Wandstrat’s neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida, but her ranch-style home flooded with 9 inches of water that ruined her appliances, doors, dry wall, floors and furniture. She still sleeps on a mattress on the living room floor with her youngest daughter.
Around Town: South Pinellas news briefs
ST. PETERSBURG — St. Petersburg Parks & Recreation Department's seasonal neighborhood pools have resumed summer hours following the Memorial Day observances. • Childs Park Pool, 1227 43rd St. S. — Monday through Friday from 1-4 p.m., Friday from 7-9 p.m. and Sunday from 1-4 p.m. • Fossil Park...
Perfect can’t be the enemy of abundant good with the Rays-Gas Plant project | Column
Seventeen years. Seventeen long years filled with hope, despair, false starts, acrimony, posturing, sales pitches, split-season plans, threats of moves and now renewed optimism tied to a grand proposal. As a lifelong St. Petersburg resident (and thus a lifelong Rays fan), there has been no issue more exhaustingly discussed and debated than the future of the Tampa Bay Rays and their plans for a permanent home.
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