ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Mayor Ken Welch on Tuesday will see all nine proposals for developing the 86-acre historic Gas Plant District.<\/p>\n
Ark Ellison Horus\u00a0and Kettler was the first group to file a proposal, and since then, more have come in. They are from Foundation Vision Partners, Freedom Communities Company, Logical Sites Inc, Pinellas County Housing Authority, Reparations Land Trust and Development Authority, Tempo Novus, The Burg Bid LLC and The Tampa Bay Boom Inc. See the proposals below…<\/p>\n
Welch said his team will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of all the proposals and select a winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have a public forum where the developers will present to our community,” Welch told Spectrum News. “We\u2019ll have the community benefits process as well, and then I will select one of those developers.”<\/p>\n
When asked if the process could take a few months, he said, “Oh, definitely.”<\/p>\n
Welch says the city has planned for more than a decade and that it’s time to move forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlanning first is great, but planning perpetually is not something we should do,” Welch said. “When I ran for office, folks didn\u2019t want to see continued planning. They want to see impact from a 40-year promise when the land was taken for economic inclusion at that site.”<\/p>\n
Ark Ellison Horus Proposal<\/p>\n
Foundation Vision Partners Proposal<\/p>\n
Freedom Communities Company<\/p>\n
Logical Sites Inc<\/p>\n
Pinellas County Housing Authority<\/p>\n
Reparations Land Trust and Development Authority<\/p>\n
Tempo Novus<\/p>\n
The Burg Bid LLC<\/p>\n
The Tampa Bay Boom Inc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Mayor Ken Welch on Tuesday will see all nine proposals for developing the 86-acre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1564,770,2968,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-142264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-angie-angers","9":"tag-community-news","10":"tag-josh-rojas","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pinellas-county","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-tampa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142264","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=142264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}