St. Pete City Hall Pride Flag Raising
For the fourth consecutive year, Mayor Rick Kriseman and city leaders raise the Pride flag over St. Petersburg City Hall in celebration of Pride month!
Learn more about St. Pete Pride and Pride events this weekend: click here.
To watch the video, click the image above or click here.
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Breaking Ground: Skyway Marina, The Deuces, and Campbell Park
On Friday, June 16, Mayor Kriseman, city officials, and community leaders broke ground on a regional skate park in South St. Petersburg in Campbell Park.
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On Monday, June 19, Mayor Kriseman and community members broke ground for the I-275 Underpass Lighting and Landscape Improvement Project on the Deuces.
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A On Tuesday, Mayor Kriseman helped break ground on a new $70M mixed-use property featuring apartments, businesses and even a lazy river in the Skyway Marina District.
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Public Highlights for the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and the Sunshine City
June 24 through July 1, 2017
| Saturday, June 24, 9:00 am |
Wildflower Walk, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
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| Saturday, June 24, 10:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman, The First Tee of St. Petersburg Youth Mentoring Center Groundbreaking, Twin Brooks Golf Course
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| Saturday, June 24, 10:00 am |
The First African American Community of Freedom in North America, Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum
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| Saturday, June 24, 2:00 pm |
Movies at the Royal, Royal Theater/Boys & Girls Club Arts Academy
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| Saturday, June 24, 2:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, St. Pete Pride Celebration, Parade & Events, St. Petersburg
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| Saturday, June 24, 6:00 pm |
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| Sunday, June 25, 9:00 am |
2017 St. Pete Pride Celebration: St. Pete Pride Festival, Grand Central District
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| Monday, June 26, 7:00 pm |
Golden Gurlz Live! American Stage Theatre Company
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| Wednesday, June 28, 9:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Pier Groundbreaking, Spa Beach
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| Wednesday, June 28, 10:30 am |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, James Museum of Western Wildlife Art Topping Off Ceremony
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| Wednesday, June 28, 11:30 am |
Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Voice of Hope for APHASIA Ribbon Cutting, Sunshine Center
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| Wednesday, June 28, 6:00 pm |
Community Spelling Bee, Johnson Community Library
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| Wednesday, June 28, 7:00 pm |
Twilight on the Town Summer Walking Tour - Downtown, St. Petersburg
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| Thursday, June 29, 5:00 pm |
St. Petersburg Preservation's Secrets of the Vinoy Hotel Special Tour, Renaissance Vinoy Hotel
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| Thursday, June 29, 6:00 pm |
ArtFlix - Chillida, Art & Dreams, Dali Museum
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| Friday, June 30, 2:00 pm |
Music in the Marly, Museum of Fine Arts
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| Friday, June 30, 6:00 pm |
Sundial St. Pete Friday Night Music Series, Sundial St. Pete
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| Friday, June 30, 7:00 pm |
Magney & Gordon Present Dignitary Party Summer Bash by Ian Beckles, Mahaffey Theather
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| Saturday, July 1, 10:00 am |
Let's Create! Summer Camp Exhibition, Morean Arts Center
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| Saturday, July 1, 11:00 am |
St. Pete Indie Market Summer Series, State Theatre
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| Saturday, July 1, 11:00 am |
Pioneer Open House, Boyd Hill Environmental Studies Area
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| Saturday, July 1, 12:30 pm |
Vans Warped Tour 2017, Vinoy Park
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Tuesday, June 20 |
Tampa Bay Times: From the ashes of the Mosley Motel will rise a $55 million development in St. Petersburg
As the 15th annual installation of St. Pete Pride gears up, it seems unfathomable that the biggest event of its kind in the southeastern U.S. was once a small festival most local elected officials were inclined to shun. Or that no mayor signed a proclamation recognizing the event's cultural and economic significance to the city until 2014.
The shift speaks to the area's evolving demographic makeup - and how voters in places like St. Pete and Tampa increasingly demand that candidates for local office don't just preach "tolerance," but welcome everyone regardless of whom they love or their gender expression. The desire to show pride and quash intolerance has morphed into an active network that has helped shape the cities' political conversations.
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Tuesday, June 20 |
Bay News 9: Skyway Marina District construction project moving forward
Dirt is moving once again in the Skyway Marina District in Saint Petersburg.
A new mixed-use property featuring apartments, businesses and even a lazy river is now under construction.
District Executive Director Keri Melshenker said the $70 million project on 34th Street South is a game changer for the neighborhood.
"We are primed for growth and people are seeing it. We were rated a great city for millennials to come work and play and that's what this site is going to be," Melshenker said.
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Tuesday, June 20 |
WMNF: St. Pete Pride will feature Florida's first transgender pride march
This weekend is one of the largest gay pride events in the south:
St. Pete Pride. Organizers expect hundreds of thousands of people to converge on St. Petersburg.
Eric Skains, executive director of St. Pete Pride, says Saturday's pride parade will kick off with Florida's first-ever transgender pride march.
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Wednesday, June 21 |
Gulfport Gabber: Skyway Marina District Launches Multi-Use Project
The ground was officially broken Tuesday June 20 for the $73 million multi-use complex anchoring the redevelopment of the swath of lower 34th
Street S. known as the Skyway Marina District.
The first phase of the project on nine acres at the corner of 30th
Avenue S. is a self-storage and parking building for residents of the 300 apartments to eventually be built on the site. The structure will also help mitigate noise from Interstate 275, while murals and projection art on the side facing the interstate will bring attention to the district.
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Wednesday, June 21 |
Tampa Bay Times: Vinoy resort will ask St. Petersburg voters to approve new parking garage (with tennis courts on top)
The Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club is undergoing a $50 million redevelopment and part of that plan calls for building a new one-story parking garage over eight existing tennis courts.
But to move forward, the resort needs the blessing of St. Petersburg's voters. The Vinoy will pay for a Nov. 7 referendum seeking approval of the new garage.
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Wednesday, June 21 |
Creative Loafing: The Pride Issue: They've got the power
As the 15th annual installation of St. Pete Pride gears up, it seems unfathomable that the biggest event of its kind in the southeastern U.S. was once a small festival most local elected officials were inclined to shun. Or that no mayor signed a proclamation recognizing the event's cultural and economic significance to the city until 2014.
The shift speaks to the area's evolving demographic makeup - and how voters in places like St. Pete and Tampa increasingly demand that candidates for local office don't just preach "tolerance," but welcome everyone regardless of whom they love or their gender expression. The desire to show pride and quash intolerance has morphed into an active network that has helped shape the cities' political conversations.
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Thursday, June 22
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WUSF: St. Pete Mayor Picks Up Climate Change Banner
Outraged over President Donald Trump's unilateral withdraw from the Paris Accords, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman is vowing to take up the slack.
The Democratic politician has become the poster child for the Sierra Club's Mayors for 100 Percent Clean Energy initiative.
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Thursday, June 22 |
Tampa Bay Times: Gay, black leaders speak about finding their place
When Lillian Dunlap moved to Florida at age 52 in 1999 she could finally breathe. The journalism professor from the University of Missouri and the University of Indiana hadn't been able live openly as a gay woman until then. She had considered coming out before but never did.
"Each time, I thought 'I can't really be out because I've got enough trouble. I'm black and a female, do I really want to add another one so I can actually really get the door slammed in my face?,' " the business consultant and affiliate faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies told a crowd at the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Museum. She was part of a panel discussion titled "Not A Trend: The Truth."
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Thursday, June 22 |
Creative Loafing: Pride flag flies over St. Pete City Hall
For the fourth year in a row, city officials, LGBTQ community leaders and allies gathered around the flagpole outside St. Petersburg City Hall to raise the Pride flag.
A crowd of dozens applauded the move, which serves as a nod to this weekend's St. Pete Pride parade and festival, the biggest event of its kind in the state, as well as sign of welcome and appreciation for both the city's burgeoning LGBTQ community and the visitors Pride attracts. A handful of anti-choice protesters dotted the crowd, though everyone ignored them.
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Thursday, June 22 |
The Weekly Challenger: Lighting up the Deuces
"Let's turn some dirt," said Bob Esposito from the Florida Department of Transportation at the groundbreaking ceremony held Monday for Deuces-Interstate 275 Underpass Lighting and Landscape Improvement Project.
The 22nd Street Corridor, also known as the Deuces, was once a prosperous area and the main street for black citizens living in Jim Crow St. Petersburg. Once eminent domain uprooted business and families in the early 1970s, urban decay set in.
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Thursday, June 22 |
Tampa Bay Business Journal: After years of tourmoil, the new St. Pete pier has a groundbreaking date
The city of St. Petersburg will break ground June 28 on
its new pier.
Mayor
Rick Kriseman
along with Deputy Mayor
Kanika Tomalin, city council members and city staff will be at the north side of the pier approach in front of Spa Beach at 9 a.m. to officially kick off construction.
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Thursday, June 22 |
10 News: St. Petersburg mayor raises rainbow flag over city hall
Mayor Rick Kriseman raised a rainbow flag over city hall for the fourth consecutive year on Thursday morning to herald in the city's annual Pride weekend festivities.
Kriseman also introduced Jim Nixon as his new volunteer LGBT liaison.
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Thursday, June 22 |
The Weekly Challenger: New Faith Free Methodist Church honors the SPPD and Chief Anthony Holloway
As part of their Men's Day 2017 celebration, the members of New Faith Free Methodist Church, located at 2427 Irving Ave. S, will honor St. Petersburg's finest.
The public is invited to attend the 11 a.m. morning worship service Sunday, June 25. The keynote speaker will be Police Chief Anthony Holloway, and the theme of "Men of Faith Striving for Stronger Brotherhood" is clearly a reflection of our community's need.
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