Robert Blackmon, who served on the St. Petersburg City Council from 2020 to 2022, is also a local real estate developer.
Blackmon and his family were behind the restoration and rehabilitation of the former Standard Oil station, at the corner of 4th Street S. and 24th Avenue, in St. Petersburg’s Harbordale neighborhood. It is now occupied by Pete’s Bagels.
The project was honored by the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation May 14 at the Florida Preservation Awards during the organization’s Preserve Florida 2026 conference in St. Petersburg…