ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) -- The City of St. Pete is opening a 30-day window for more proposals for land on the Historic Gas Plant District site. The city announced on Tuesday another developer recently pitched an offer for a piece of the land.

Take it from residents like Langdon Lytle.

"I'm very excited to live next door to the Trop for next season. It's one of reasons I moved to St. Pete, actually," Lytle said.

He said he liked the old Rays Hines proposal for the Historic Gas Plant District but understands there are new proposals coming in that don't include baseball. What he doesn't want to see are communities being left behind.

"I'm from South Florida where the same exact thing happened. Yeah, really, everybody that was like mid to low-income workers, they kind of were pushed out

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