Mayor prefers modifying rather than removing I-175

Mayor Ken Welch realizes it will take much more than reconnecting roads to mitigate the decades-old, systemic disenfranchisement of Black families and businesses in St. Petersburg. Long-discussed efforts to mitigate an interstate’s negative impacts on predominantly African American neighborhoods in St. Petersburg recently received federal funding. According to city reports,…..

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