{"id":388595,"date":"2026-09-02T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:12:10","slug":"st-pete-ranks-high-for-hispanic-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388595\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete ranks high for Hispanic entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 2, 2026 &#8211; WalletHub has ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a> No. 13 nationally among the best cities for Hispanic entrepreneurs, giving the city a total score of 56.66. St. Pete ranked No. 10 for Hispanic business-friendliness and No. 63 for Hispanic purchasing power in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-and-worst-cities-for-hispanic-entrepreneurs\/6491\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2026 WalletHub study<\/a>, which compared 182 cities across 23 metrics including Hispanic-owned businesses, entrepreneurship rates, business revenue growth, affordability, income growth and unemployment.<\/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":"September 2, 2026 &#8211; WalletHub has ranked St. Petersburg No. 13 nationally among the best cities for Hispanic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-388595","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\/388595","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=388595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}