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The owners of Allelo St. Pete on Beach Drive have announced their newest restaurant, Juno & the Peacock, set to open soon at 400 Beach Drive in downtown St. Pete. […]

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Find below quick bites of news from around the city of St. Pete and the greater Tampa Bay area. Coverage includes restaurant openings, big city news, food festivals, community events, […]

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Families from war-torn countries risk losing their new lease on life as rising living costs throughout Tampa Bay have brought a local refugee program to its tipping point. Clearwater-based Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services (JFCS) has issued an urgent plea for help sustaining its Refugee Assistance Program. The organization has assisted over 3,000 […]

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American Stage is back in action this week, with the opening of its midsummer, season-ending show and the official launch of a fundraising campaign to “save” the annual spring musical production in Demens Landing Park. On May 31, Producing Artistic Director Helen R. Murray said that mounting production and labor costs threatened the end of […]

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City Office REIT, Property Markets Group, and Feldman Equities are “actively finalizing plans to bring a 5-star, luxury branded condominium project to downtown St. Pete,” according to a press statement […]

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French fries are one of those hit-or-miss foods. A hot, crispy fry is nearly euphoric, but a soggy, starchy wedge can leave you with dry mouth and a day’s worth […]

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Part two of two. Mayor Ken Welch said the “whole point” of two previous Historic Gas Plant District redevelopment workshops was to glean feedback from the St. Petersburg City Council and “possibly strengthen” agreements. Speaking to the Catalyst after the June 12 meeting, Welch said the goal is unanimous support for the $6.7 billion mega-project […]

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New details have been revealed for a proposed development on 2nd Avenue South that will bring the first hotel-branded luxury condominium tower to downtown St. Pete. Earlier this month, the owners of the 12-story City Center office building at 100 2nd Avenue South announced to its tenants that they were exploring redevelopment opportunities for the building’s six-story parking garage, which is located at 150 2nd Avenue South.  The parking garage currently serves tenants of the City Center building, which is owned through a joint venture by Feldman Equities, City Office REIT, and Tower Realty Partners.

In secretive hearings, the University of Florida set aside recommendations to lightly punish some of the college students arrested after pro-Palestinian protests on campus and kicked them all out of school for three to four years. The decisions by the new dean of students, Chris Summerlin, overruled what were effectively sentencing recommendations by the juries, known as hearing bodies, who heard testimony and watched police video of the protests and arrests during the disciplinary cases. The students were among nine people who university police and Florida state troopers arrested April 29 during a demonstration on a plaza on the University of Florida campus.

A day after deadly Hurricane Beryl pounded Texas, experts at Colorado State University on Tuesday increased their storm forecast for what was already expected to be an above-average hurricane season. The university’s Department of Atmospheric Science added two named storms and a major hurricane to its outlook for the 2024 season, which started June 1 and will run through November. The department said it needed to “slightly” increase projections because of near-record warm Atlantic and Caribbean waters and a lack of strong vertical wind shear that helps temper hurricane development.