Mayor Ken Welch has selected Green Mills Group, a South Florida-based affordable housing developer, to redevelop a historically significant city-owned property at 951 22nd Street South.

The selection follows a Request for Proposals (RFP) process that launched in August 2024, which drew three submissions from Green Mills Group, Tall Cotton, and Alexander Goshen/Goode Van Slyke Architecture.

Under Green Mills’ proposal, the vacant 0.68-acre site would be transformed into a $20 million mixed-use development, called Heritage Grove, featuring 54 affordable apartments and 2,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space.

City Council is expected to vote on a negotiated ground lease and development agreement next Thursday, October 16th.

The City of St. Petersburg has received an unsolicited offer to redevelop a city-owned lot in south St. Petersburg.

Green Mills Group, an affordable housing developer, and Advantage Village Academy, Inc., a not-for-profit organization founded and based in St. Petersburg, have partnered up to submit an offer to purchase a 2.1-acre site fronting 18th Avenue South at 21st Street. The team is proposing a 96-unit affordable housing project across from Tangerine Plaza.

Green Mills Group has previously developed two affordable housing developments in St. Pete’s Historic Kenwood neighborhood, Burlington Place, a 53-unit building at 3155 Burlington Avenue North which opened in 2017, and Burlington Post, an 86-unit building at 3201 Burlington Avenue North which opened in 2018.