Veronica Brezina

After a nearly four-year stretch, Kahwa Coffee has opened its newest drive-thru coffee shop at 6601 Fourth Street North in St. Petersburg. The shop, which is built from repurposed shipping containers, was initially expected to debut in 2020; however, there were repor

This month’s edition of Aerial St. Pete shows the construction progress on several real estate developments throughout downtown St. Petersburg. Aerial St. Pete is a column by St. Pete Rising which features exclusive aerial photography of projects under construction in St. Petersburg, FL. To accompl

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The owners of Lolita's Wine Market are reopening their former Grand Central District storefront with a new concept. Owners Alex and Kelly Rodriguez, who relocated Lolita’s from the 1700 block of Central Avenue last year to a space inside the Morean Center for Clay, will debut their new concept

A local couple is flipping a 1926 bungalow in St. Pete’s Grand Central District into a combined florist shop and wine bar. Drawing from his experiences working in California's wine country and at St. Pete floral shops and breweries, Anthony Diaz and his fiancée Carly Dauscher aspire to bring the Na

Iced teas with bold fruity flavors from Sweet Georgia Peach to Mango Tango will be served at HTeaO's new planned Largo store. Texas-founded franchise HTeaO , an indoor and drive-thru iced tea restaurant chain, plans to expand its Florida footprint with a new storefront at 3460 East Ba

After St. Pete Beach commissioners delayed voting on TradeWinds' proposed expansion plans last week, the owners have finally won their approval. Following hours of debate that started Tuesday evening and bled into Wednesday morning, in a 3-2 vote, the commissioners narrowly approved a development a

A vacant commercial space in St. Pete's Grand Central District will become a new high-end Italian market and dining hall. Julius Nasso, founder of The Big City Group and Big City Hospitality, has announced plans for the new concept, San Valentino Italian Market, which will debut later thi

The haunting stories of the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews during the Second World War will continue to be shared on a larger scale thanks to an expansion of The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. Friday morning, state legislators and supporters took turns signing a steel b

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