{"id":308392,"date":"2026-06-15T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308392\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:26:08","slug":"bankruptcy-filing-deepens-concerns-at-morgan-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308392\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankruptcy filing deepens concerns at Morgan Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 15, 2026 &#8211; The owners of <a href=\"https:\/\/themorganapts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Morgan Apartments<\/a> in south St. Petersburg filed for bankruptcy in April after falling behind on a $46.3 million mortgage, while a lender has since moved to foreclose on the property. The City of St. Petersburg is also seeking more than $400,000 in unpaid water bills, and residents have reported worsening conditions that include mold, overgrown landscaping, an out-of-service laundry facility, nonfunctional fire systems and a pool closed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/pinellas.gov\/department\/health-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pinellas County Health Department<\/a>. Speaking before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg City Council<\/a>, St. Petersburg Tenants Union representative Charles Phillips said the complex is roughly 30% occupied and urged city leaders to intervene on behalf of residents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 15, 2026 &#8211; The owners of The Morgan Apartments in south St. Petersburg filed for bankruptcy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-308392","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\/308392","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=308392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}