{"id":145310,"date":"2026-02-05T22:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:34:13","slug":"ken-welch-gave-up-the-chance-at-a-moffitt-campus-cathie-wood-could-bring-it-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145310\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Welch gave up the chance at a Moffitt campus; Cathie Wood could bring it back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t1<\/p>\n<p>In his first year in office, St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch axed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\/news\/2022\/08\/12\/welch-kills-moffitt-proposal-in-downtown-st-pete.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a project<\/a> that would have created a Moffitt Cancer Center campus in downtown. At the time, he said the proposal didn\u2019t include enough affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/st-petersburg\/2025\/05\/15\/st-petersburg-moffitt-cancer-condos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">approved a plan<\/a> to instead build two 31-story towers with a total of 824 apartments, none of which will be designated as affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, ARK Ellison Horus has <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/777756-ken-welch-gave-up-the-chance-at-a-moffitt-campus-cathie-wood-could-bring-it-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">added Moffitt Cancer Center<\/a> as a partner in its redevelopment proposal for the Historic Gas Plant District. The group is one of nine that have pitched projects to the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Janelle Irwin, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 In his first year in office, St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch axed a project that would have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-145310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145310","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=145310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}