{"id":142307,"date":"2026-02-03T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142307\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:43:09","slug":"inside-the-nine-proposals-vying-to-redevelop-the-86-acre-historic-gas-plant-district-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142307\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the nine proposals vying to redevelop the 86-acre Historic Gas Plant District in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Tempo Novus<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/temponovus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tempo Novus<\/a>, led by co-founders Roy Alston and Sean Hampseys, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DPZ CoDesign<\/a> as lead urban planner, this proposal deliberately does not present a master plan or fixed development program for the Historic Gas Plant District. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Instead, it proposes a framework-based redevelopment approach capped at 3\u20134 story buildings, with human-scale, mixed-income residential development, neighborhood-serving commercial space, and civic uses to be defined through a future community-led design process and approved in phase-gated increments by the City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The submission does not specify the number of residential units, square footage of office, retail, hotel, or civic space, nor a full site buildout scenario. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Tempo Novus proposes a financing and delivery structure built around complex capital stacks (including LIHTC, NMTC, Opportunity Zone equity, TIF, and philanthropic capital), enforceable community benefit agreements, and city-controlled phase approvals, with the developer absorbing predevelopment risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The focus of the proposal is governance, financing structure, and development process rather than a quantified site plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tempo Novus Submitted by Tempo Novus, led by co-founders Roy Alston and Sean Hampseys, in partnership with DPZ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-142307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142307","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=142307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}