In 2020, St. Petersburg Rick Kriesman put out a request for proposals to build a new baseball stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays and transform the surrounding 86 acres where a Black neighborhood called the Gas Plant District once stood.

Five years and two collapsed deals later, the dream of replacing the now-dilapidated Tropicana Field seems all but dead. But as that door closes, it opens the possibility for a whole new kind of development in the historic Gas Plant District.

“We’re excited and grateful to start with a look at these parcels of promise, 86 acres that await our community’s imagination on how they will catapult this whole city on the margin from a great, to an iconic place,” said Kanika Tomalin, President and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg.

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