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St. Pete City Council unanimously approves downtown waterfront master plan

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St. Pete City Council unanimously approved a revised downtown waterfront master plan. Following a short presentation addressing earlier concerns with the plan Thursday, council members each agreed the plan had been revised to alleviate concerns expressed by the public. The approved plan does not include a downtown convention center or hotel. The downtown waterfront master plan seemed to be moving along without much contention until word of a private hotel and convention center near the Mahaffey Theater prompted members of…

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St. Pete Yacht Club has serious reservations about parts of Waterfront Master Plan

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Leaders of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club have some concerns about the city’s proposed downtown waterfront master plan. In a letter penned by Yacht Club Commodore Harvey Ford and signed also by Vice Commodore Richard Winning and Rear Commodore Robert Birkenstock, the group expresses concerns that the city may inadvertently be creating water hazards and encroaching on private property. The letter was sent to all members of the St. Pete City Council, as well as Mayor Rick Kriseman and Dave…

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Ed Montanari pulls down record-breaking fundraising numbers

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St. Pete City Council candidate Ed Montanari has raised more than $45,000, according to sources close to his campaign. The total so far comes from more than 175 contributors. Montanari has not posted First Quarter treasurer reports, but if the numbers reported to SaintPetersblog are accurate, it puts Montanari at already unprecedented fundraising levels and he still has about a month before reporting figures to the City Clerk. To put it into perspective, City Council member Steve Kornell, who is…

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Local media coverage of Rays stadium saga shows desperation

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It may not be the biggest or most breaking news, but locally it’s the St. Pete City Council workshop talking about the Tampa Bay Rays and its current use agreement barring them from looking at stadium sites outside of St. Pete. The outcome of that meeting, though not binding, was telling of the city’s next steps. Council is deadlocked on moving forward with a brokered agreement between Mayor Rick Kriseman and the Rays to lift that ban and allow them to consider…

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.29.15 –The Rays stadium situation in St. Pete seriously needs to change soon

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The St. Pete City Council huddled for over four hours yesterday to settle….absolutely nothing regarding the impasse with the Tampa Bay Rays and the stadium situation. For a blow-by-blow account, check out my colleague Janelle Irwin’s recount. While the Rays and the Council battle against each other, I’m going to take a look at one of the real culprits in this saga: baseball fans in the Tampa Bay area, or the lack of them. Depending on what happens tonight in Madison Square Garden,…

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Rays stadium agreement gains one ‘yes;’ still doesn’t have enough support to pass

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After nearly five hours of back and forth and sometimes in a circle debate, St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman has walked away from a City Council workshop with one more vote in favor of an agreement to let the Tampa Bay Rays look at stadium sites outside of St. Pete in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. Council member Amy Foster switched her no on the memorandum of understanding from a “no” to a “yes.” “I agree this is not enough money,”…

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Live blogging St. Pete City Council’s Rays drama one Wengay rant at a time

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St. Pete City Council’s workshop talking about the Rays, Tropicana Field, Wengay Newton’s bowtie and all things St. Pete baseball is about an hour and a half underway. We realized, those who aren’t watching are missing out on some serious drama. Well, folks, keep it tuned here for the blow-by-blow. First, here’s what you missed. Some architect students from USF SP showed off their nifty projects evaluating possible uses for the 85 acres of space currently occupied by the Trop…

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