After much anticipation, the final design for the St. Pete Skate Park has been revealed. Team Pain offers a virtual tour of the park that will be a home for recreation and education.

T Site work at the park - located at 16th Street and 5th Avenue South - is set to begin soon. Nick Nicks and Daniel C. Brown of the  St. Pete Skate Park Alliance  and Jay Turner of  School of Skatin'  worked closely with Karl Nurse and St. Pete City Council to get the project approved in May of 2016. The project is financed through the city's Weeki Wachee Fund.                   

                      

                          

                          

                            

Tom and Mary James on Wednesday signed their names to the last steel beam framing the 105-ton stone mesa that will be built at the entrance of the museum that bears their name: the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art.

Wednesday's event represented a construction milestone for the $55 million museum being built at 100 Central Ave., said project director Laura Hine, who was among the dozens of officials, community guests and crew members who signed the beam.                 

A small crowd of St. Petersburg elite braved the heat Wednesday to sign a steel beam and watch it get placed atop the new Tom &  Mary James  Museum of Western + Wildlife Art.

Tom James, chairman emeritus of Raymond James Financial Inc. (NYSE: RJF), and his wife, Mary, anticipate opening their museum later this year in downtown St. Pete.                   

Year-round beach temps mean these coastal Floridians love themselves some water sports, but they're also landlubbers. In fact, the percentage of searches for businesses in wellthy categories in St. Pete's beats any other city on our list. Here's where residents hang when dry. 

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is putting his money and experience to work on behalf of America's cities. The billionaire media mogul announced this week that Bloomberg Philanthropies would spend more than $200 million over the next three years to help the nation's mayors solve the most vexing problems facing their communities. Bloomberg is acting in response to the hostility and indifference in Washington and to the challenges mayors face, from violent crime and opioid abuse to the need for affordable housing. Both Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman plan to participate, and this initiative could provide a much-needed jolt for the economic and social backbone of the country.