{"id":40988,"date":"2025-11-10T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40988\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:00:07","slug":"400-central-developer-asks-mayor-welch-for-more-time-to-bid-on-historic-gas-plant-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40988\/","title":{"rendered":"400 Central developer asks Mayor Welch for more time to bid on Historic Gas Plant site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Catsimatidis, who is also planning <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/400-central-developer-red-apple-group-acquires-mirror-lake-tower-site-in-downtown-st-pete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a new mixed-use apartment tower near Mirror Lake<\/a>, suggested that a longer window would allow \u201cthose locally, nationally, and internationally who are experienced and know how to deliver\u201d to participate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">He added that Red Apple would be willing to focus solely on the residential portion of the redevelopment if the city preferred that approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cOne hallmark of your administration is inclusion,\u201d he wrote to Welch. \u201cWe ask that you include not just those who have gone through this process before and not just those who see this as free advertising, but those who can truly deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Under Florida law, when a local government receives an unsolicited proposal and chooses to explore it further, it must open the process to competition through a public notice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/2022\/8\/26\/city-of-st-petersburg-releases-rfp-for-86-acre-tropicana-field-redevelopment-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">developers were given 88 days to respond<\/a> to the city\u2019s request for proposals for the same site, nearly three times longer than the current 30-day window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Red Apple is not alone in its request for more time. Late last month, South Florida-based developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kolter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kolter<\/a>, which built downtown St. Pete towers <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/one-stpetersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ONE St. Petersburg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/saltaire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saltaire<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arthousestpete.com\/?utm_source=stpete-rising&amp;utm_medium=banners&amp;utm_campaign=september&amp;utm_id=2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Art House<\/a>, also asked the city to extend the bid period to 90 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catsimatidis, who is also planning a new mixed-use apartment tower near Mirror Lake, suggested that a longer window&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-40988","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\/40988","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=40988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}