Vertical Ventures Ribbon Cutting
On Saturday, July 25th, Mayor Rick Kriseman cut the ribbon on Vertical Ventures St. Pete. Watch video footage of this one-of-a-kind ribbon cutting by clicking the image above, or here.
Learn more about Vertical Ventures and their new St. Petersburg location here.
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Public Highlights for the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and the Sunshine City
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August 1 through August 7, 2015
| Saturday, August 1, 8:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman: Junior League Back to School Care Fair
Enoch Davis Rec Center
Learn more here.
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| Saturday, August 1, 11:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman: Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. St. Petersburg College Midtown Center Grand Opening
Learn more here.
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| Sunday, August 2, 2:00 pm |
Marly Music Chamber Series: Brass Roots Trio
Museum of Fine Arts Learn more here.
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| Tuesday, August 4, 6:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman: National Night Out
Target, 8151 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. St. N.
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| Wednesday, August 5, 12:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman: Mayor's Council of Pinellas County, Belleview Biltmore Golf Club
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| Thursday, August 6, 5:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman: LocalShops1's Best in Biz Awards, Museum of Fine Arts
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| Saturday, August 8, 8:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman: The Great Brain Wash, South Straub Park
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The Weekly Challenger: Grand Opening of new SPC Midtown Center Aug. 1
St. Petersburg College (SPC) will host a ribbon cutting and block party to celebrate the grand opening of the new
Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Midtown Center beginning at 11 a.m. this Sat., Aug. 1 at the center, 1300 22nd St. S. The event is free and open to the public.
The new 45,000-square-foot, state-of-the art center will serve as the college's flagship campus and community center for south St. Petersburg and will open for classes for the Fall 2015 term, which begins Aug. 17.
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Orlando Sentinel: Florida's bike paths to get $25 million annually
"Anytime a funding source for trails is identified, it's good news for the biking/walking community," said Becky Alfonso, who runs the Florida Bicycle Association.
Some of the money could go toward the Coast to Coast Connector trail, a bike path that would link Florida's east and west coasts. Gardiner said the coast-to-coast plan would be a perfect for the money he had set aside.
"That's a tailor-made fit," he said of the 250-mile plan that would connect St. Petersburg with Titusville.
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Inhabitat: Rogers Partners and ASD picked to give St. Petersburg, Florida an exciting new public pier
New York studio
Rogers Partners, landscape architect
Ken Smith and local firm
ASD were selected to design the new hybrid pier and park in
St Petersburg, Florida.
The city council approved the plans for a replacement to the run-down pier and now that the plans have been revealed, we are excited to see what's in store. The new design will connect the expanded waterfront district with the upland landmass and provide exciting new social spaces to the city's inhabitants.
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The Weekly Challenger: She processes the evidence that helps put accused criminals away
On the floors above Charity Jackson's department at the St. Petersburg police station, all is commotion and bustle as sworn officers and civilian employees move through their day.
But on the windowless bottom floor, things seem more subdued as Jackson, 40, and other property and evidence technicians process and store the bodily fluids, drugs and ominous looking instruments of mayhem that are key to numerous cases, some going back five decades.
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