Former St. Petersburg City Council member and mayoral candidate Robert Blackmon has made a cash offer for a city-owned strip mall long pitched as a potential grocery story location, he has confirmed. Tangerine Plaza, at 1794 22nd St. S., has sat vacant, only serving as a location for food drives, since a Walmart Neighborhood Market operated until 2017 as the sole grocer in that part of the .
Vince Nowicki, a real estate agent who briefly ran for mayor of St. Petersburg in 2021 before dropping out, has filed to run as a Republican for the countywide District