District By District: District 4
Discover St. Pete's diverse City Council Districts, with your City Council member as a guide!
In this episode, City Council Chairwoman Darden Rice takes you on a virtual tour of District 4. For more information about this district and your Council representative, click here.
To watch the video, click the image above or click here.
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Pier Minute: Repurposing the Old Pier with Bill Logan
Get informed on what's happening with the New St. Petersburg Pier in a minute or less! This week, Bill Logan tells us how the rubble of the old pier will be used.
To learn more about the new St. Pete Pier, click here.
To watch the video, click the image above or click here.
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Public Highlights for the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and the Sunshine City
January 28 through February 4, 2017
| Saturday, January 28, 9:00 am |
National Seed Swap Day, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
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| Saturday, January 28, 11:00 am |
Exhibition: Artlink Japan, Creative Clay, Inc.
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| Saturday, January 28, 2:00 pm |
Peter Pan, freeFall Theatre Company
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| Sunday, January 29, 1:30 pm |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, State of Urban Affairs, Fairmount Park Elementary School
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| Sunday, January 29, 7:00 pm |
Terry Fator, It Starts Tonight, Mahaffey Theater
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| Monday, January 30, 7:30 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Present Catholic Schools Week Proclamation, St. Paul Catholic School
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| Monday, January 30, 9:30 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Countywide Wastewater/Stormwater Task Force Steering Committee, St. Petersburg College Seminole Digitorium
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| Tuesday, January 31, 10:00 am |
Sacred Art Tour of Tibetan Monks, Opening Ceremonies, Florida CraftArt
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| Tuesday, January 31, 11:45 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Tiger Bay State of the Bay, Suncoast Tiger Bay, St. Petersburg Marriott (12600 Roosevelt Road)
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| Tuesday, January 31, 5:30 pm |
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| Wednesday, February 1, 10:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Flag Raising for 2017 Black History Month, City Hall
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| Wednesday, February 1, 11:30 am |
Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Five Fabulous Females, The Tradewinds |
| Wednesday, February 1, 12:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, Mayor's Council of Pinellas County, St. Pete Marriott
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| Thursday, February 2, 9:30 am |
Mayor Kriseman, PARC's Discovery Learning Center Playground Ribbon Cutting
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| Thursday, February 2, 12:30 pm |
Deputy Mayor Tomalin, 2017 Florida Philanthropic Summit, Foundation for a Healthy St. Pete, The Vinoy
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| Friday, February 3, 8:00 am |
Distance Classic Regatta, St. Petersburg Yacht Club
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| Friday, February 3, 11:00 am |
America Heart Month Free Blood Pressure Screenings, Municipal Services Center Building
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| Friday, February 3, 11:30 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Leadership St. Pete Alumni Association Friday Forum Lunch Address, Sheen Conference Center, Bayfront
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| Saturday, February 4, 8:30 am |
Bike Share Kickoff Community Bike Ride, City Hall
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| Saturday, February 4, 10:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Localtopia, Williams Park
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| Saturday, February 4, 12:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, Annual Kids & Kubs City Hall Stars Softball Game, North Shore Park
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| Saturday, February 4, 6:30 pm |
Joe Turner's Come & Gone, American Stage Theatre Company
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Saturday, January 21 |
Creative Loafing: In St. Pete, the Women's March was the most big league and bigly event ever
Exactly 24 hours after Donald Trump officially became (ugh) president, a crowd was gathering at Demens Landing, a large waterfront park in downtown St. Pete. Their aim was to show solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of people who marched in Washington, DC and elsewhere on Saturday.
It was the biggest event of its kind in the city's history, officials said. At least 20,000 people showed up.
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Sunday, January 22 |
Tampa Bay Reporter: The People Will Not Back Down Or Be Silenced, St. Petersburg Council Member Says
They came. Babies in strollers.The elderly in wheelchairs. And all ages in between.
They came. All races. All genders. Different religions.The physically fit and those on crutches.
They came. More than 20,000 of them came to Demen's Landing, they said, to stand firmly together for civil rights, the environment and other issues that span all ages, races and genders.
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Tuesday, January 24 |
Tampa Bay Times: $10 million land deal in downtown St. Petersburg sets stage for major redevelopment
The redevelopment of a prime block in downtown St. Petersburg has taken a major step forward.
Ending a long-running dispute, First States Investors has transferred its part of the 400 block of Central Avenue to members of the Pheil family in a $10 million transaction, newly recorded deeds show. Family members, who own the rest of the block, can now proceed with the sale of the entire two-acre site to New York's Red Apple Group for what could be one of the priciest transactions ever for a downtown parcel.
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Tuesday, January 24 |
Tampa Bay Reporter: Grand Canal Water Line Replacement Begins This Week
Following emergency seawall repair and replacement, city of St. Petersburg Water Resources workers will begin work Wednesday (
Jan. 25), to replace both potable and reclaimed piping in Venetian Isles along Grand Canal Boulevard between Overlook Drive NE and Massachusetts Avenue NE.
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Wednesday, January 25
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TBN Weekly: Lynn Pippenger Hall opens at USF St. Pete
Hundreds of community members, legislators and university students, faculty and staff gathered outside the east entrance of Lynn Pippenger Hall on Jan. 17 to celebrate the official opening of the newest building to grace the USF St. Petersburg campus.
Lynn Pippenger Hall is the new home of the Kate Tiedemann College of Business.
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Wednesday, January 25
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Tampa Bay Times: Kriseman to host St. Pete's 1st mayoral Iftar dinner
On a day marked by
news of President Donald Trump's intention to at least temporarily limit immigration to the United States from some predominantly Muslim countries, Mayor Rick Kriseman announced Wednesday he will host a June dinner with Tampa Bay Islamic leaders.
One of those leaders, Abdul Karim Ali, is a well-known iman who is also the son of Joseph Savage, who organized the landmark 1968 sanitation strike in the city, a major civil rights advance for black city workers.
The city's first offiical Iftar dinner to celebrate Ramadan will be held at the Coliseum and is open to all faiths, according to a news release from the mayor's office.
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Wednesday, January 25
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Tampa Bay Reporter: Kriseman, Muslim Leaders To Host City's First Iftar Dinner
Mayor Rick Kriseman and Muslim leaders from throughout Tampa Bay will host St. Petersburg's first Iftar dinner welcoming residents of all faiths to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The event will be held June 14 at St. Petersburg's historic Coliseum. Additional details will be announced later.
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Wednesday, January 25 |
Tampa Bay Business Journal: What this St. Pete med tech firm will do with $1.5 million in angel funding
TAO Connect plans to expand its online mental health tools, now that it has nearly $1.5 million from two angel funds.
FAN Fund invested $900,000 and
New World Angels invested $460,000, according to press releases from each organization.
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Thursday, January 26 |
Tampa Bay Times: Smokeless tobacco banned at Tropicana Field, other city venues
The City Council formally approved a ban on smokeless tobacco at Tropicana Field and city parks and recreation centers at its Jan. 19 meeting.
The ban, supported by the Tampa Bay Rays and Major League Baseball, would make St. Petersburg the 13th MLB city to ban smokeless tobacco, not just for players and coaches, but for anyone who attends an organized athletic event in the city.
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Thursday, January 26 |
Tampa Bay Times: Kriseman meets with MLB, MLS in New York City
Mayor Rick Kriseman traveled to New York City Thursday to make his city's case to keep one major league franchise and bring another to the Sunshine City.
Kriseman met with Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber first for about an hour at the commissioner's office.
They discussed the Tampa Bay Rowdies' bid to join MLS. Garber, the mayor said, was impressed with the region's television market and population base. Kriseman emphasized St. Petersburg's demographics---a city getting younger and more diverse---as a a good fit for MLS, whose fan base skews the same way.
Afterward, Kriseman visited Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred at MLB headquarters to discuss the Tampa Bay Rays ongoing stadium search.
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Friday, January 27 |
Tampa Bay Business Journal: Here's what Kriseman focused on during New York pitch to MLB commissioner
St. Petersburg Mayor
Rick Kriseman is positioning his city to come out on top in the fight for the future of
Tampa Bay Rays baseball in Tampa Bay - or so he hopes.
Kriseman met with
Major League Baseball Commissioner
Rob Manfred Thursday in New York City to pitch a baseball site he thinks can be a prime spot for the team's and the region's economic success.
"To me it was important to try and get him to understand what the future potentially holds for that site," Kriseman said.
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Friday, January 27 |
Tampa Bay Business Journal: From racing to retail: Boutique in St. Pete's Edge District is Susie Wheldon's next chapter
Susie Wheldon deliberately planned the grand opening of her new boutique in St. Petersburg for the same weekend that the Firestone Grand Prix takes over the Sunshine City.
It's a nod to her late husband, IndyCar driver
Dan Wheldon, who died in a racing accident in Las Vegas in 2011. But the opening of Verve, on Central Avenue in the city's Edge District, is symbolic on multiple levels for Wheldon.
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The City Hall Broadcast: Aaron Carmella Manager of "See Click Fix"
Radio St. Pete has partnered with the City of St. Petersburg on the production of a bi-weekly podcast "The City Hall Broadcast." Join host Will Kuncz of the Homemade Broacast, for this unique, inside and informal view of our city government.
To hear the podcast, click the image above or click here.
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