Mayor Ken Welch’s administration has done an about-face on turning Albert Whitted Airport into something else, an idea he brought up one month after arriving at City Hall three years ago.
Now, St. Petersburg is on the doorstep of accepting a state grant that would require Albert Whitted to function as an airport for the next 20 years. Approval sailed through its first City Council public hearing unanimously April 17 with no discussion and will come back up for a final vote May 1.
“The data and the facts led me to not pursue a non-aviation use,” Welch said Wednesday…