Don’t blame Walmart
Dear Editor, Redevelopment and community redevelopment has taken on various names and…
Community Redevelopment Area
City and county challenges
Dear Editor: The south St. Petersburg community over the past year and half has witnessed…
Progress denied south of Central
Dear Editor, As many of you know the City of St. Petersburg is facing a slew of issues…
Community grant program to up its funding in 2017
BY DEVIN RODRIGUEZ, JONAH KING, ROBERT DARE AND SARA AL-MUTAWA, Neighborhood News Bureau…
The new CRA has hit the ground running
The tour stopped at Imagination Station Daycare BY GYPSY C. GALLARDO, Contributor…
The critics were dead wrong about Southside CRA dollars
Dear Editor, It’s time to get serious about winning new dollars for our community.…
CRA Workforce Readiness Fair
Hundreds of job seekers took advantage of the job fair. BY ILYCE FORMAN AND LINDA…
What projects would help our community?
Kenneth Welch, Pinellas County Commissioner BY KENNETH T. WELCH, Pinellas County…
May 31: City starts accepting TIF Grant Fund applications
ST. PETERSBURG – The city of St. Petersburg will begin accepting applications for Tax…
What is the Southside CRA… What is a TIF?
Dear Editor, The Southside CRA has been in the paper recently with some in the community…
Questions answered about the South St. Petersburg CRA
What is a Community Redevelopment Area (CRA?) A Community Redevelopment Area – a CRA…
Midtown and the CRA
BY LAUREN HENSLEY and REBEKAH DAVILA Neighborhood News Bureau ST. PETERSBURG – His…
Midtown redevelopment: Let’s pray this time will be a charm
Dear Editor, In June 2013, the St. Petersburg City Council passed resolution 2012-416 a…
Pinellas is moving forward
BY COMMISSIONER KENNETH T. WELCH I’d like to update Weekly Challenger readers on…
Putting our community to work
BY DR. KANIKA TOMALIN, Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg ST PETERSBURG — This week, I…
St. Pete says goodbye to the box
BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Mayor Rick Kriseman and Deputy Mayor…