Houston Taylor PLLC

01/10/2022

Congratulations to our Partner Amanda Taylor for receiving ConnectCRE’s 2021 Lawyers in Real Estate Award!

Amanda Taylor represents landowners and developers in purchase and sale transactions, due diligence, leasing and development work including, land use, zoning, planned development documentation, environmental permitting and alcoholic beverage licensing. She also represents court-appointed receivers f...

03/05/2021

Partner Derek Houston serving as Chairman of the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership

Melissa Seixas is ending a three-year term as chair of the board of directors of the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership. Seixas, vice president, Florida government and community relations at Duke Energy Corp., chaired her final Downtown Partnership meeting Thursday. She will be succeeded by Derek H...

12/04/2020

There's no secret St. Pete's art community is rising.

My feet are throbbing, and my head is giddily swimming with images of Dalí’s mind-bending paintings, fantastical shapes of Chihuly glass, and murals portraying everything from pressing social issues to a ginormous shark ready to devour passersby. Over the last 48 hours in St. Pete, a city situate...

02/11/2020

Congratulations to our partners at Tampa Bay Watch on their recent grant to install a free Electric Vehicle charging station at their Tierre Vierde facility, thanks to a grant provided by Duke Energy.

Duke Energy is installing up to 530 electric vehicle, or EV, charging stations within its Florida service area that will provide the necessary infrastructure network to promote and support the benefits of clean electric transportation.

02/10/2020

The Tampa-St. Pete- Clearwater market came in no. 11 among U.S. markets to watch, according to the PWC emerging trends report for 2020. Check out this and other real estate trends from the recent ULI conference.

South Pinellas County is one of the hottest real estate submarkets in the Tampa Bay area, and downtown St. Petersburg is at the epicenter of the activity. Active adults, defined as older buyers who may or may not be working but have healthy incomes and are willing to pay for what they want, where th...

01/30/2020

St. Pete is set to grow even more. Reflection, the new 18 story property, will contain approximately 5,300 square feet of retail space.

Fred Hemmer has lived in St. Petersburg for most of his life, and while he wasn’t born here, he calls St. Pete his home. After graduating from Boca Ciega High School he went on to study at St. Petersburg College and then the University of South Florida. Over the past few decades he has worked in b...

01/27/2020

ICYMI: Ag. Commissioner Nikki Fried has named Erin Albury to serve as the new Director of the Florida Forest Service.

Albury will replace Jim Karels, who is retiring.

01/22/2020

The Florida Dept. of Citrus is discussing what’s next for marketing of Florida orange juice. 🍊 🍊

The Florida Department of Citrus kicked off its new social media marketing campaign for orange juice earlier this month, and the debate continues over

01/20/2020

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

01/03/2020

Great piece on Florida’s Best Management Practices and the importance of taking care of the land we use every day.

A fourth-generation Florida farmer explains his stewardship practices.