A new $8.1 billion proposal to transform the area around Tropicana Field includes a 13-acre central park, a “Museum Row,” a community ownership platform and thousands of affordable and workforce housing units.
The expansive development team, led by St. Petersburg-based Blake Investment Partners, also proposed a light rail hub and an outdoor water park. If selected, prominent local artists Chad Mize and Mark Aeling will helm a public arts center.
Blake Investment Partners (BIP), in a “groundbreaking approach to community accountability,” has established The Historic Gas Plant Visionary Panel. “We are stewards first, investors second,” said founder T.W. Blake in a prepared statement…