{"id":28388,"date":"2025-10-31T18:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/28388\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:59:07","slug":"several-developments-move-forward-along-the-deuces-corridor-in-south-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/28388\/","title":{"rendered":"Several developments move forward along The Deuces corridor in south St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  The Historic Manhattan Casino<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The City is also bringing the Historic Manhattan Casino at 642 22nd Street South back to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Once a major venue for Black musicians and community events, the facility has been vacant since 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ajax Building Company recently begun a $5 million renovation to reopen the building as a 12,000-square-foot, city-operated event space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The ground floor will feature a pre-function area, conference room, green room, and catering kitchen. Upstairs, a ballroom will accommodate up to 300 guests. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The mural by local artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalaford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ya La\u2019ford<\/a>, titled The Kings Dream Unite, by will remain a centerpiece. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The city expects to begin taking event reservations early next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The renovation project is expected to be completed by July 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Historic Manhattan Casino The City is also bringing the Historic Manhattan Casino at 642 22nd Street South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-28388","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\/28388","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=28388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}