{"id":14216,"date":"2025-10-21T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14216\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:10:36","slug":"south-st-petes-tangerine-plaza-redevelopment-plan-filed-for-186-affordable-apartments-and-a-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14216\/","title":{"rendered":"South St. Pete\u2019s Tangerine Plaza redevelopment plan filed for 186 affordable apartments and a grocery store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Sugar Hill Group has enlisted local firms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjarc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wannemacher Jensen Architects<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgefyoung.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">George F. Young<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vickstromeng.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vickstrom Engineering Services<\/a>, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanfarmersinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Urban Farmers Inc.<\/a>, to bring the project to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The project is expected to cost roughly $70.1 million, funded by a mix of public loans, tax credit equity, debt, and developer equity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Construction is projected to take 18 to 20 months once it begins, though a groundbreaking date has not been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When Tangerine Plaza opened in 2005, the shopping center was intended to help revitalize an area long plagued by blight and crime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Anchored by SweetBay Supermarket, city leaders also hoped it would finally bring basic amenities to the Midtown neighborhood, which at the time had none, not even a grocery store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">SweetBay lasted eight years before closing in 2013, only to be replaced by Walmart Neighborhood Market, which shut down just three years later in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sugar Hill Group has enlisted local firms Wannemacher Jensen Architects, George F. Young, and Vickstrom Engineering Services,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-14216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}