A few blocks south of downtown St. Petersburg, the 900 and 1000 blocks of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street S. sit at a transition point.
MLK runs into South St. Petersburg, where the city’s history of segregation, Black entrepreneurship and uneven investment remains visible in the neighborhoods and commercial corridors around it.
The Looking Glass Initiative is taking shape at that threshold, across several long-neglected properties on both sides of the street…