{"id":212031,"date":"2026-03-30T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212031\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:09:06","slug":"inside-the-citys-early-review-of-eight-proposals-for-the-86-acre-historic-gas-plant-district-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212031\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the city\u2019s early review of eight proposals for the 86-acre Historic Gas Plant District in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Three city officials \u2014 Housing and Neighborhood Services Administrator Amy Foster, City Development Administration and Finance Managing Director Beth Herendeen, and Assistant City Administrator Tom Greene \u2014 have completed initial evaluations of the submissions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">While additional city staff may also review the proposals as the process moves forward, these are the only three evaluations that have been submitted to date. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe process of reviewing and shortlisting the proposal received is underway. At this stage, staff evaluations are an initial review of the submissions and do not represent a final selection of shortlisted proposals,\u201d the city said in a statement to St. Pete Rising. \u201cThese evaluations will be forwarded to Mayor Welch for his consideration and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Eight proposals ultimately moved through the evaluation process after one team, Tempo Novus, withdrew its submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Across all three evaluators, the same four proposals were recommended for shortlisting: ARK Ellison Horus, The Burg Bid, Foundation Vision Partners, and the Pinellas County Housing Authority (PCHA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three city officials \u2014 Housing and Neighborhood Services Administrator Amy Foster, City Development Administration and Finance Managing Director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-212031","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\/212031","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=212031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}