Daily Archives: August 2, 2015

Editorial: St. Petersburg should pursue study of dome site

The St. Petersburg City Council has taken a creative step toward breaking the destructive stadium stalemate with the Tampa Bay Rays. The council’s vote Thursday to ask Mayor Rick Kriseman to seek an Urban Land Institute study of Tropicana Field’s redevelopment potential is positive movement, and Kriseman should pursue this option. The study should not…

Old fire station in Clermont may provide opportunity for additional downtown parking

CLERMONT — The old fire department in downtown Clermont may disappear from the landscape soon. That’s because city officials have begun discussions about demolishing it to create additional parking downtown.   Fire Chief Carle Bishop said he remembers working out of the building, located at 882 West Desoto St., behind what is still the Police…