{"id":327220,"date":"2026-07-02T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327220\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:05:08","slug":"st-pete-mayor-welch-to-announce-gas-plant-district-redevelopment-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327220\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Mayor Welch to announce Gas Plant District redevelopment proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch will hold a press conference at 9 a.m. on Thursday, July 2, to announce the proposal for the Historic Gas Plant District redevelopment project.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH LIVE:<\/p>\n<p>The future of the 86-acre property has been in limbo since the stadium deal with the Tampa Bay Rays fell through last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the months since, the city has accepted proposals from developers to figure out what to do with the site.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders shortlisted <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/residents\/current_projects\/historic_gas_plant.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4 proposals <\/a>from ARK Ellision Horus, Foundation Vision Partners, Pinellas County Housing Authority, and The Burg Bid (Blake Investment Partners).<\/p>\n<p>The city held a public meeting back in April with the developers and had 30 days of public input. .<\/p>\n<p>Many people in the community have called for affordable housing to be a main focus in redeveloping the historic African American district.<\/p>\n<p>Once Welch makes a selection, the Community Benefits Advisory Council Committee and City Council will formally vet it, then the CBAC will host two meetings in July.<\/p>\n<p>Following those meetings, Welch and his staff are expected to begin to negotiate a term sheet for City Council to vote on.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Welch will hold the press conference at Campbell Park in St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p>The press conference will be livestreamed on Tampa Bay 28&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/live2\" presentation=\"role\" label=\"\u00a0website\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> and<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tampabaynews\/\" presentation=\"role\" label=\" Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friends remember Hillsborough woman stabbed to death in Palm River<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say Amanda Roark, 37, was stabbed to death by her boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Friends remember Hillsborough County woman stabbed to death in Palm River<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch will hold a press conference at 9 a.m. on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[596,107032,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-327220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327220","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=327220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}