Jesse SchecknerFebruary 28, 2024
7min0
Like the structures it concerns, opposition to the bill has eroded over time as its sponsors made changes to reflect community feedback.
Tag: historic preservation
Jesse SchecknerFebruary 28, 2024Jesse SchecknerApril 28, 2023
14min0
Last-minute changes to the bill carve out cities like St. Augustine and Surfside, but not Miami Beach.
Janelle Irwin TaylorApril 22, 2019
8min528
Local historic designation seems to have become the city’s latest Achilles heel. It used to be the Pier, but that’s under construction and nearing completion. Residents used to hurl themselves into turmoil over the Tampa Bay Rays and the team’s stadium debacle, but, now, that too has gone quiet. The latest controversy splitting St. Pete […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorApril 9, 2019
8min407
Property owners within that boundary would have to get city approval for external modifications.
Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 8, 2019
12min525
Candidates touched on several issues, including improving transportation.
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 18, 2018
3min335
Four Historic Old Northeast homeowners are suing their neighbor and the city of St. Petersburg over plans to demolish a historic home in the neighborhood and rebuild a modern home on the property. William and Catherine Cobb and David and Elizabeth Skidmore live on the 700 block of 18th Avenue Northeast want to overturn city […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 21, 2018
5min659
Update: The St. Petersburg City Council canceled this item and did not hear the appellant’s case during it’s Sept. 20 meeting. A more than four-year battle over the historic downtown St. Petersburg YMCA will continue Thursday during a City Council meeting. Thomas Nestor, a local music promoter who tried unsuccessfully to purchase the building for […]