An undeveloped stretch of city-owned land along 22nd Street South could soon become a new hub for business and community in south St. Pete.<\/p>\n
The Pinellas County Urban League<\/a> has submitted an unsolicited proposal to the City of St. Petersburg outlining a plan for the city to develop the property on the Deuces<\/a> between 6th Avenue South and Fairfield Avenue South, with the organization serving as the anchor tenant and operator.<\/p>\n The plan calls for the construction of a two-story, 28,000-square-foot mixed-use building called the Sankofa Empowerment Center, which would bring together a mix of office, retail, food service, and co-working space, along with an incubator-style environment aimed at supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n A 6,000-square-foot rooftop terrace would serve as an event space, designed to host programming and gatherings throughout the year.<\/p>\n The Urban League would relocate its headquarters from 333 31st Street North in Kenwood to 3,000 square feet on the second floor, bringing its $8 million annual operations and approximately 50 community events per year to the Deuces corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An undeveloped stretch of city-owned land along 22nd Street South could soon become a new hub for business…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-198019","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\/198019","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=198019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}