City of St. Pete seeks tenant for Manhattan Casino
For months, community leaders from south St. Petersburg have lobbied city officials asking to take over the historic Manhattan Casino and make it a place to display African-American art and history. They even gave officials a petition with more than 1,000 signatures supporting a proposal to move the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African-American Museum to the site. But city officials have nixed that idea and, instead, are looking for a tenant willing to open a restaurant and event venue or…