2025 Downtown Development Summit
February 25, 2025 3:00 - 6:00 pm
1246 Central Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Please join us for the fifth annual St. Petersburg Downtown Development Summit on Tuesday, Feb. 25. The Summit will offer demographic data points and updates in current trends in residential and commercial development in downtown St. Pete. We will review major project and strategies to enhance our sense of place as our urban center continues to evolve. We will also look at public and private resiliency efforts around future growth and release the 2025 Development Guide.
2025 Downtown Development Summit
February 25th from 3-6pm
1246 Central Avenue S - Second Floor (office building being developed next to the Moxy Hotel)
3pm Networking
3:30pm Program
5pm Reception Hosted at the Moxy Hotel
Featuring the release of the 2025 Development Guide, a discussion of current development challenges and opportunities, the hierarchy of spaces and places, safeguarding the soul of St. Pete through intense weather events and market pressure and the 2025 Downtown Achievement Awards.
Speakers will include:
- Wendy Giffin, Cushman Wakefield
- Will Conroy, Backstreets Capital
- Sarah Lindemuth, Meshsem, Inc.
- Mack Feldman, Feldman Equities
- Casey Ellison, Ellison Development
- Lee Lowry, Urban Land Institute, Tampa Bay
- Jerel McCants, author of Architecture of Segregation
- Peter Kageyama, author of For the Love of Cities and the Emotional Infrastructure of Places
- And Mayor Kenneth T. Welch, City of St. Petersburg