Former lumber yard site to offer affordable housing in St. Petersburg

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A new affordable housing community is coming to St. Petersburg’s Warehouse Arts District, and city leaders say a state law designed to speed up housing development helped make it possible.

The Fairfield Avenue Apartments — a 264-unit community — officially broke ground Wednesday on land with more than 50 years of local history.

The property once housed Tibbetts Lumber and, before that, Cox Lumber — businesses that helped build much of the surrounding city…

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