ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Developers and investors now have more time to create their proposals for the Historic Gas Plant District in St. Petersburg. Mayor Ken Welch wrote in a memo that he extended the deadline for the submissions.

What we know:

The city asked developers in October to submit their proposals after local investors ‘Ark Ellison Horus’ sent the city their plan, unsolicited.

The Ark Ellison Horus plan includes housing and an African American History Museum, along with an amphitheater with additional retail and hotel space.

On Thursday, city council is expected to talk about the mayor's intention to consider alternative proposals in addition to that one.

The mayor wrote that the Ark-Ellison-Horus proposal was not the first unsolicited proposal they received; they had one i

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