Are you like me? Give me a physical map and I get excited! Maybe its a carryover from the pre-GPS days, but I think it is such a fun way to explore an area.
Do you have an innovative idea for the District - a place we are missing, a new use for an existing building, a technology tool... anything? As part of our Master Planning project, we have an online tool available for you to share these ideas.
Imagine a day when you jump in an electronic, autonomous air taxi in St. Pete and head to Tampa International Airport or even to Orlando.
The Innovation District master planning project has begun!
Kudos to the Volunteers of America Florida, City of St. Petersburg, and Pinellas County for the recent opening of the new downtown apartments, located in the Innovation District called Innovare. Innovare’s 50 apartments provide stable homes for individuals and families who earn 60 percent or less of the Area’s Median Income (AMI), including many who are transitioning from homelessness.
For general comments about programming, geography not in the study area and more, please send a message. Please note while we will review all comments, due to the volume, we may not be able to respond to all.
To make comments on the project plan, please visit Kimley-Horn.
The St. Pete Innovation District’s mission is to develop St. Petersburg into an environment that fosters job growth, economic development, and learning and inspiration by bringing innovative people and organizations together.
Nothing better exemplifies this - than our role as an innovation test bed. We use our geographic base to partner with national organizations, as well as local private companies, nonprofits, government, and educational institutions to test technology and help shape solutions that can benefit our community and someday solve challenges around the world.
The Smart City effort began in 2019 with the SPID’s admission into the US Ignite Smart Gigabit Communities program. Before we looked at a single technology tool or considered the first pilot project, the Smart City working group started with a discussion about our community’s challenges. Leveraging past studies and the lived experience of citizens, our discussions spanned infrastructure, education, bicycle safety, transportation, sustainability and resiliency, small business support and wayfinding. We prioritized these challenges. Then we looked for ways that existing community expertise and smart city technologies could work to address them. Those discussions led us to select the four proof of concept projects that are currently underway: Smart Lighting, Guardians of the Gulf (STEAM Education), Smart Intersection, and Digital Inclusion.
