Pinellas County Schools seeks proposals to turn historic St. Pete building into staff housing
Pinellas County Schools has issued a request for proposals for a housing development for its teachers and staff. The RFP is for both the development and the management of a residential or mixed-use community at the site of the historic Tomlinson building in the Mirror Lake District of downtown St. Petersburg. The building became a vocational school in 1931, and in 1978 it was renamed the Tomlinson Adult Education Center. The center closed in December 2021. The goal is for the project to “address…Original Article
The project will go before the Community Redevelopment Agency this week.
A Clearwater developer wants to create a new waterfront district just north of downtown — beginning with 52 luxury condominiums.
Several high-rise construction projects are expected to bring more than 1,000 residential units to St. Pete.
Over 1,500 units are spread across four projects in various stages of development.
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