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Thursday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Shopapalooza Festival returns bigger and better at Vinoy Park
St. Petersburg's Shopaplooza Festival showcased up to 165 vendors and was previously held on consecutive Saturdays after Thanksgiving at Straub Park. But this year, the nearly seven acres of additional land will accommodate more than 225 vendors, and the festival is now a two-day event celebrating local arts, music and businesses.
› A jury just awarded a gay Florida man $157 million from tobacco companies. It could be a landmark case.
Here's why the Florida case is gaining national attention: The couple was not married when the victim was diagnosed with COPD. But the jury decided they would have been if Florida had allowed it.
› Miami developer will address the country’s affordable housing crisis
Related Group’s Executive Vice President Jon Paul Pérez is taking on the country’s affordable housing crisis. Pérez is partnering with housing social-investment firm Federal Housing Solutions to create a new venture, Pérez Housing Associates, that will upgrade existing affordable housing stock nationwide using Section 42 tax credits.
› Marriott hotel, food hall planned for St. Pete’s Edge District
A 161-room Marriott hotel and a European-style food hall will anchor the Edge Collective, a mixed use project in St. Petersburg’s Edge District. Located in the 1200 Block of Central Avenue, the collective will also include a coworking space and a "paseo,'' a throwback to the 1920s mid-block passageways found elsewhere in the city.
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