{"id":195399,"date":"2026-03-17T20:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:42:37","slug":"174-unit-affordable-housing-project-with-rents-starting-at-512-per-month-proposed-for-skyway-marina-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195399\/","title":{"rendered":"174-unit affordable housing project with rents starting at $512 per month proposed for Skyway Marina District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The developer anticipates obtaining site plan approval and permits by early 2027, with construction beginning shortly after and completion targeted for early 2029. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Skyway Flats would be Elmington\u2019s first project in St. Pete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In its application, the development team pointed to strong demand for affordable housing in the Skyway Marina District, noting that nearby income-restricted communities are fully occupied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Across 38th Avenue South, Skyway Lofts, a 65-unit affordable housing community, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/2022\/2\/11\/affordable-housing-development-skyway-lofts-opens-in-the-skyway-marina-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">opened in 2022<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/skyway-lofts-completes-66-new-affordable-apartments-in-the-skyway-marina-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a 66-unit expansion completed in January<\/a>. Both buildings are fully occupied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Just north along 34th Street South, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/2084-unit-sky-town-begins-vertical-construction-on-first-apartments-in-st-pete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the 2,084-unit Sky Town apartment development<\/a> will designate 40% of its units as income-restricted housing. The first phase, totaling 401 apartments, will include 121 affordable units and is expected to begin welcoming residents in the second quarter of 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe Skyway Marina District is a booming market within St. Petersburg with an immense amount of market-rate development,\u201d Elmington wrote in it\u2019s application. \u201cThe nearest affordable housing development serving the same demographic has had a 100% occupancy rate consistently\u2026further showing the need for affordable housing in this region.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The developer anticipates obtaining site plan approval and permits by early 2027, with construction beginning shortly after and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-195399","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\/195399","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=195399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}