Another email:
" Here's a link to an article from Cottage Living about the 10 best "cottage" communities. Kenwood made it, not Sem. Hts....rats!!
I love what was written about Kenwood's business district. Click on the Kenwood, St. Petersburg link"
http://www.cottageliving.com/cottage/travel/article/0,21135,1195459,00.html
It's not that Cottage Living is missing Seminole Heights (see Nov/Dec 2004 issue.It is that we are missing the great retail that Kenwood has in the Grand Central district of their neighborhood - that is where we fall short of being a great cottage neighborhood. As soon as that part clicks - we are there.
ReplyDeleteIf you can just imagine Kenwood but replace Central Ave with an 8-lane freeway, make 5th North and 5th South into major delapidated commercial thoroughfares (sp), remove all of the brick streets, curbing and sidewalks, what would you have??? SEMINOLE HEIGHTS!!
ReplyDelete"remove all of the brick streets, curbing and sidewalks,"
ReplyDeleteI have all three in front of my house. Perhaps something south of Kennedy would suit you better?
well aren't you the luck duck to have all 3 in front of your house ! Color me jealous - don't have any of the 3 on our street in SH ! Jealous ? yes !
ReplyDeleteThese things won't come until SH as a whole starts demanding better from our representatives, especially where traffic and roads are concerned. We need to make clear that we're not going to sacrifice our quality of life so someone who lives outside of the city can have an easier commute.
ReplyDeleteKenwood does have 275 running through it, but otherwise the thoroughfares aren't as wide or heavily traveled and there *is * more retail and dining there.
ReplyDeleteI don't have sidewalks, curbs, or cobblestone where I am or anywhere in my area. I'd take 1 of 3 at this point.
here, here Mr. Harmon!!! You said it exactly right. Why is it that they can find all of the money in the world to shuttle suburbanites to and from downtown from Brandon and beyond on a state-of-the-art speedway and yet, at the very same time cannot find any money at all to repave or restripe or landscape Nebraska Ave??? Is it because the political authorities think that the poor blacks down there don't deserve a little new asphault now and then? Why aren't we really up in arms about this? In the meantime, Mr. Kevin White hasn't had any trouble at all finding the time and energy to put up all of those illegal snipe signs all over God's green earth. I just can't take it anymore. Good NIGHT!
ReplyDeleteWhat's a snipe sign?
ReplyDeleteSee http://seminoleheights.blogspot.com/2005/05/snipe-signs.html
ReplyDeleteI do love Kenwood. One they they have over us is that the city of St. Pete does not play with code enforcement. They have thier "ugly" houses, but not like us. In addition, Central is amazingly beautiful. The palms alone cost more than the city of Tampa spent on Seminole Heights! Let's all scream a bit louder!
ReplyDeleteI am sure they are in a CDC zone(which generated $$$ to spend) like SESH - so when you guys start getting your restriping and landscaped medians start holding the city's feet to the fire and have them upgrade from the little 1 gal pot of monkey grass that they will consider as landscaping. As for the rest of us north of Hills - at this point we are SOL
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the money Tamp ahas put into neighborhoods, we in SH have ben left out. At the County Conferene they passed out a map showing where the CDC's and Economic Enterprise zones are. They were colored black. In the middle of all the black was SH which was white. Between Hillsborough and the River and from about 15th to the River on the West has been totally forgotten by the city. Makes you wonder why, doesn't it. I think Greg and Harmon have it right. We need to be more vocal about their ignoring us.
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