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Tropicana Field study, Pier fence to be debated this week in City Council

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There’s a full slate for St. Pete City Council Thursday afternoon. The eight-member board will address two of the city’s three most prevalent issues – the Pier and Tropicana Field. Councilmember Jim Kennedy placed an item on the agenda asking for an Urban Land Institute study looking at various options for development on the Tropicana Field site both with and without a stadium. It would “establish a vision with the development potential and scope of what the projects could include.…

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Yes, he’s Wengay’s brother, but City Council candidate Will Newton is his own man

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Five candidates are running to replace City Council member Wengay Newton for his District 7 seat covering parts of South St. Pete including Midtown and Child’s Park. One of them is his brother. Will Newton, or Winnie as his firefighter friends call him, is a St. Pete native and has lived in his district since the 1980s in the home he purchased then. Newton is a retired firefighter who now works as the district vice president for the Florida Professional…

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Wengay Newtons Pier liability concerns are moot

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St. Pete City Council member Wengay Newton is concerned about safety surrounding the now barricaded St. Pete Pier. According to WTSP, Newton believes the fence is inadequate to keep people from the shuttered inverted pyramid. “These are the type of things that happen when you rush,” Newton told 10 News, noting that if someone got past the chain-link fences erected in advance of the structure’s demolition they could get hurt and sue the city. “There’s no hurry, no rush.” City…

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Urban north-style brownstones coming to downtown St. Pete

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A housing unit is planned for downtown St. Pete inspired by northern big city living. The Brownstones will be a five-unit complex on Fourth Avenue North and First Street North inspired by homes in cities like New York, Boston and Chicago. As first reported by St. Pete Rising, each unit will be more than 4,000 square feet with three bedrooms in the main unit and two bedrooms above a detached garage. The units will also feature 800 square feet of live/work…

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Pier Selection Committee dismissed by Rick Kriseman

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The Pier Selection Committee charged with ranking design choices for a new St. Pete Pier has officially been relieved of its duties. Mayor Rick Kriseman officially thanked and dismissed committee members during a meeting in his office Thursday afternoon. The team ranked Pier Park at the top of its list during a meeting last month and St. Pete City Council subsequently approved that ranking and opened the door for Kriseman to begin negotiations with that design team. Those negotiations are expected to wrap…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

Ever since I acquired the rights to the perfect domain for my efforts — FloridaPolitics.com — I knew that one

This isn’t the first Pier Park in St. Pete’s history

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This isn’t the first time a “Pier Park” has been proposed for downtown St. Pete’s waterfront. In 1984, St. Pete voters rejected a proposal for a massive renovation to the Pier approach called Pier Park. That proposal would have included a theater, marine science center, arboretum, museums, shops and restaurants. The cost for that project would have been $72 million. Adjusted for inflation, that would be the equivalent of nearly $150 million. The rejection of that project led to at…

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Young business leaders emerge with late-hour Pier Park support

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In response to former St. Pete Mayor Rick Baker’s op-ed supporting the Destination St. Pete Pier design, a group of young professionals has emerged to offer a new dissenting voice. “The way that this debate has transpired in my eyes, is it really comes down to the old generation of St. Pete verses the new generation of St. Pete,” said David Vega, a technology manager for Wells Fargo. According to the group of six men, all young leaders in the…

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