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Calida, a new wine bar and restaurant, is now open in St. Petersburg's Crescent Heights neighborhood.
International flavors and wine are the highlight at this new Crescent Heights spot.
“We have demonic possessions, demons, things that go bump in the night and we’ve been playing with the Ouija board. What could go wrong?”
The Legislature this week passed the state’s most meaningful housing legislation in decades.

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  1. Calida, a new wine bar and restaurant, is now open in St. Petersburg's Crescent Heights neighborhood.
  2. Producer Chris Leto sets up a camera in front of a grandfather clock during the filming of “The Clock” Monday, March 20, 2023 in Brooksville.
  3. Wisconsin-based company, Escape, is building 23 tiny homes in Thonotosassa.
  4. Blue Sky Communities and elected officials celebrate the groundbreaking of SkyWay Lofts, which was slated to have 65 apartments for low-income families, on Sept. 16, 2020.
  5. Despite dealing with rapidly shifting economic conditions, these five real estate firms across the Tampa Bay area say their agents are prepared to weather the storm
  6. Signs against the new zoning that would allow single-family homes to be converted to duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes to increase density are visible at the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street and 22nd Avenue North on Monday in St. Petersburg.
  7. The former Arturo Fuente Cigar Co. factory is pictured. Liana Fuente, the great-granddaughter of the founder, has purchased the property.
  8. Experts predicted home sales to slow in 2023, but so far, many real estate markets are faring better than expected.
  9. Signs rejecting new zoning that would allow single-family homes to be converted to duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes to increase density are visible on the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street and 22nd Ave N on Monday.
  10. A neighborhood near the planned South Dade Logistics and Technology District. Florida lawmakers are eyeing a proposed constitutional amendment that would change the Save Our Homes property tax cap to provide bigger savings to homeowners.
  11. A two-family townhome in the Historic Kenwood neighborhood. The home was previously a multifamily apartment, but it was renovated and restored to be a larger two-family townhouse.
  12. Tuesday Morning store in Modesto, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. The national discount chain is closing multiple stores.
  13. Bob Glaser is CEO of Smith & Associates, which has represented most of Tampa Bay's major condo towers, including ONE St. Petersburg, Signature Place and Saltaire in St. Petersburg and Virage, Altura and the Residences at Tampa's Edition hotel.
  14. Nestle will move its Tampa offices into Midtown West, the office building at Midtown Tampa that also houses the headquarters of Kforce and Primo Water.
  15. This house in St. Petersburg's Old Northeast was built in 1927, seven years after the start of Prohibition.
  16. Planes are seen at Albert Whitted Airport in St. Petersburg in 2022.
  17. The beaver statue outside the Buc-ee's in Athens, which opened Nov. 21, 2022.
  18. Kenny Lawson performs in a drag show at the Hamburger Mary's in Clearwater in May 2016.
  19. The Pearl restaurant at Water Street in Tampa.
  20. Florida Sen. Nick DiCeglie, then a state representative, is pictured in January 2022. DiCeglie, an Indian Rocks Beach Republican whose district includes many of Pinellas County's small beach communities, is leading the latest charge in Florida's battle over short-term rental regulations — a hot topic for many of his constituents.
  21. A two-family townhome in the Historic Kenwood neighborhood. The home was previously a multi-family apartment, but it was renovated and restored to be a larger two-family townhome.
  22. Coasis, a new restaurant and bar in Seminole Heights in Tampa, opened this week.
  23. Megan McGee pictured in front of what used to be a garage at her home at 5000 11th Ave N in St. Petersburg on Monday. “I wasn’t getting the full story,” she said of the house she bought that had a costly code violation. “It just seems like there’s a problem in the system that this can even happen.”
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