ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A community led development group was given an extension on their project at Tangerine Plaza on 22nd Street South. The area is known as a food desert, and this project would bring a much-needed grocery store and affordable housing.
It’s been a Sweetbay, a neighborhood Walmart, and mostly an empty space. But a vote Tuesday approved giving the Sugar Hill Group more time to bring their vision to the Deuces and Midtown corridors.
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“The grocery store is very important, and affordable housing. We don’t have that. And then it would be a new build, right, so it would give people an opportunity to live better and have a better quality of life,” said Beatrice Morris, a resident who attended the meeting.
Community members told the council it’s been a decades-long effort to get a grocery store and economic development in the corridor. They said the area was impacted by disinvestment, and they hope this project can start to turn it around…