{"id":159651,"date":"2026-02-18T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:25:07","slug":"mayor-welch-set-to-deliver-state-of-the-city-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159651\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Welch set to deliver State of the City Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 Mayor Ken Welch will deliver his State of the City address on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He will lay out his goals for 2026 and take a look back at last year.<\/p>\n<p>A topic expected to take center stage is the defunct Tampa Bay Rays deal and his hopes for the historic Gas Plant District.<\/p>\n<p>But this is also an election year, and Welch has already announced he\u2019s running for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Affordable housing remains an issue the mayor is expected to address, along with continued hurricane recovery and fortifying the city before the next storm.<\/p>\n<p>The address is taking place at the palladium theater at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 Mayor Ken Welch will deliver his State of the City address on Wednesday. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1564,274,2287,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-159651","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-app-top-stories","10":"tag-local-politics","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","20":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159651","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=159651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}