After Years of Vacancy, South St. Pete Stretch of MLK Gets a New Look

After years of vacancy, South St. Pete stretch of MLK gets a new look

The $3.5 million project aims to bring local businesses and community spaces to a historically underinvested area.

South St. Pete corridor the focus of economic initiative

A few blocks south of downtown St. Petersburg, the 900 and 1000 blocks of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street S. sit at a transition point. MLK runs into South St. Petersburg, where the city’s history of segregation, Black entrepreneurship and uneven investment remains visible in the neighborhoods and commercial corridors around it. The Looking Glass Initiative is taking shape at that threshold… Source