Reimagine I-175 with us

Welcome to Reimagine 175, a grassroots volunteer organization that wants to see interstate 175 replaced with a street-grade Boulevard. 

We believe redevelopment of the gas plant site cannot be a truly restorative project with this road remaining in place. We offer an alternative to the status quo we have been hearing for the last 45 years.

St Pete can remember and learn from its past mistakes. The highway stands where a historic African American community once stood. The thriving and connected neighborhoods of Sugar Hill in the Gas Plant and Old Campbell Park neighborhood were demolished to make way for an interstate spur that has kept our city separated from its Southside for 44 years.

St Pete could be the first city in Florida to remove a highway and replace it with a Boulevard. FDOT is currently working on a feasibility study, called "175 Action Plan."  The study will find nothing new: the road remains underutilized, oversized, and that the highway is too expensive to maintain as it gets closer to the end of its life.  The lost opportunity cost of leaving this road in place is simply too high.

We are here to advocate for an option that gives the people of St Pete the most benefit. We want to see neighborhoods connected together and for the reclaimed land to be developed for affordable housing and public amenities.