Bike Your City – Pinellas Park, March 1, 2025
Forward Pinellas, in its role as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), is hosting the 9th annual Bike Your City event in March to celebrate Florida Bicycle Month. Bike Your City…
Forward Pinellas 2024 Annual Report
By Dana Santos, MPH/MA Our annual report highlights Forward Pinellas’s accomplishments and progress in transportation and land use planning over the past year. Highlights of the 2024 Annual Report include:…
New state laws will impact local communities
By Linda Fisher, AICP The 2022 Florida Legislative Session ended on March 14. While it received the most attention for a handful of bills dealing with controversial topics such as…
Forward Pinellas to Provide $100K & $1M in Complete Streets Awards
Tarpon Springs and St. Petersburg are the latest local governments in Pinellas County seeking funding under the Forward Pinellas Complete Streets Program. Started in 2016, the program provides direct funding…
Share Your Ideas & Help Create a Vision for the Future of DTSP
More than 500 St. Petersburg residents and visitors took the Downtown St. Petersburg Mobility Survey this summer telling us how they travel to and around Downtown St. Pete, as well…
Al Bartolotta celebrates 32 years of creating positive change in Pinellas County
Forward Pinellas Division Manager Al Bartolotta is retiring next month after a 32-year career in urban planning. He started with the Pinellas County Planning Department in 1988, where he worked…
It’s Time for our Quadrennial Check-up and We Want Your Input
UPDATE: This survey closed on 2/28/2021. For more information, please contact aelmore@forwardpinellas.org or call 727-464-8250. Every metropolitan area in the nation has a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) to help guide…
Connect with the Census: Make Pinellas Count!
The 2020 Census is important for all of us and the communities in which we live. There is something in it for everyone and a reason for each of us…
Downtown St. Pete Mobility Study Gets Moving
~~Forward Pinellas launches survey to shape the vision of their community~~ Ever wish there were more opportunities to bike in Downtown St. Pete? Maybe you live nearby and would like…
Working Together for #SafeStreets
What do you think about making our streets safer? Where are our problems? Do you know others who may have ideas? Earlier this year, Forward Pinellas announced the kickoff summit…
Forward Pinellas Seeking Competitive Proposals for Audit Services
July 9, 2020: On July 8, 2020, the Forward Pinellas Board approved the results of Procurement #20-03 Forward Pinellas Audit Services and authorized the executive director to negotiate and execute…
Forward Pinellas Goes virtual, May 13 at 1 p.m.
Here’s how you can get involved! The Forward Pinellas Board will hold its next public meeting virtually on Wednesday, May 13, at 1 p.m. to ensure public safety and comply…