{"id":5862,"date":"2025-10-16T01:47:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5862\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:47:44","slug":"construction-starts-on-palm-lake-urban-sanctuary-at-5401-22nd-avenue-north-st-petersburg-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5862\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Starts on &#8216;Palm Lake Urban Sanctuary&#8217; at 5401 22nd Avenue North, St. Petersburg, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction has started on Palm Lake Urban Sanctuary, a venture led by Newstar Development, Palm Lake Christian Church, and the Pinellas County Housing Authority. The affordable housing project is set to host 86 units in four stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/construction-begins-on-86-unit-affordable-housing-community-at-palm-lake-christian-church-in-disston-heights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Pete Rising<\/a> reports that residency will be available to households earning 30 to 80 percent of the area median income (AMI). Per <a href=\"https:\/\/pinellas.gov\/pinellas-county-2021-income-limits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a>, as of 2024, the median family income was $92,000. Although the community\u2019s site is designated as \u201cNeighborhood Suburban,\u201d legislation regarding affordable housing has made the project possible despite the label.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/24-0805-RenderSet-PLUS_10-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The project does not have an estimated completion date. Image by PI Architects<\/p>\n<p>Amenities at Palm Lake Urban Sanctuary (also called \u201cPLUS\u201d) include energy-efficient appliances, more than 60 surface parking spots, and electric vehicle charging stations.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks &amp; Freund is the general contractor. It doesn\u2019t have an estimated completion date for the project, although communities of this scope generally take 12 to 18 months to complete. PI Architects, Tampa Civil Design, and OutsideIn Architecture LLC were involved in the project\u2019s design.<\/p>\n<p>PLUS has undergone some changes since its initial proposal. Previous plans called for eight buildings: a three-story structure with 72 units and seven one-story villas.<\/p>\n<p>Palm Lake Urban Sanctuary is unfolding <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/Z6QDdutqhg8LJx8C8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at 5401 22nd Avenue North, St. Petersburg, Florida<\/a>, 33710, in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hud0UH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> to YIMBY\u2019s daily e-mail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/yimbygram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YIMBYFB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like<\/a>\u00a0YIMBY on Facebook<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yimbytweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBY\u2019s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridayimby.com\/category\/uncategorized\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uncategorized<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction has started on Palm Lake Urban Sanctuary, a venture led by Newstar Development, Palm Lake Christian Church,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-5862","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\/5862","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=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}