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New documentary explores lost history of St. Pete's Gas Plant District

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A new documentary talks about the lost history of the Gas Plant District here in St. Petersburg."Razed," directed by Andrew Lee and produced by Gwendolyn Reese, looks at a once vibrant Black neighborhood that was replaced by Tropicana Field."This was my childhood. This is it. We couldn't go to parks, you know what I'm saying. You made the best of whatever you could find, and this was it. You can still smell the smell."That's the story of one of …

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A new documentary highlights St. Petersburg's former Black neighborhood destroyed for Tropicana Field

Before there was Tropicana Field and its surrounding acres of asphalt, there was the Gas Plant Neighborhood in St. Petersburg. Now, there’s a new documentary shining a light on the primarily Black neighborhood destroyed to make room for the baseball stadium. Razed is a documentary that shares firsthand memories and history of the formerly vibrant Gas Plant neighborhood. It’s a film that former Gas Plant resident Andrew Walker hopes will set th…

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