The City of St. Petersburg will consider hiring the world’s oldest and largest network of cross-disciplinary land use experts to study the Historic Gas Plant site.
Home to Tropicana Field and a sea of surface parking lots in the heart of a land-scarce city, the roughly 86-acre area is also the subject of oft-contentious debate and several multi-billion-dollar redevelopment proposals. Councilmember Brandi Gabbard said Thursday that St. Petersburg lacks an unbiased, professional study on the Gas Plant’s best uses.
Gabbard also believes the Urban Land Institute (ULI) can provide that “guiding document” for city officials. Her colleagues unanimously agreed to discuss utilizing the think-tank’s local affiliate at a future committee meeting…