 Welcome back folks down. Dow Industries right now trading up 18, the Nasdaq's up 17, S&P's up 6.5. I guess today folks is Nicole Roberts. Nicole is the Community Outreach Coordinator for the St. Pete Downtown Partnership. That partnership folks is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to the thoughtful growth in urban development of downtown and Nicole is mostly focused right now on Coffrey St. Pete Initiative, a movement that encouraged locals to use all the amazing alternative transportation options available in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. Nicole, welcome back to TFNN. Hi, thank you Tom for having me back. Good to see you. How you been? I'm doing good. How are you doing? Good. Thank you. Good. Well, listen, it's a good day for it. Well, it's a I like I like you. Yeah, Halloween. Oh, I know we're going to talk about folks. This is going to be awesome. Tell us what you put together for Halloween. Oh, this is really cool. Listen to this folks. So tell us about it. Yes. Yes, it's October. It's scary season. So we're excited to start promoting our event Halloween on Central on October 31st from 12 to 5 p.m. will be shutting down Central Avenue to cars from MLK Street or 9th Street to 31st Street. How about that, huh? Yeah, two miles of Central Avenue, completely car free. You can bring your bikes, skateboards, roller skates and come enjoy the street car free and see all the community come together. Now, what's so cool about that, you know, not only for all the residents and for the visitors, the business people, which is really cool. That's going to give them a shot to really feel what it's like with people coming down and hopefully giving them a good shot in the arm and having them get some good gross income. Yes, exactly. And we really are encouraging all the businesses that are already on Central Avenue to come out, plan some activities in the street, bring some of their merchandise out onto the sidewalk, really showing them all they can do with that space too. And it's car free, but especially ending this year after the pandemic. We're super excited just to celebrate our local businesses that are already on Central Avenue. Nice. Now, when we say, you know, when you say the downtown partnership, what do you consider downtown? Well, downtown is really ever growing. I think, you know, our strict definition is kind of the, you know, 375 to 175, the water and that 16th Street. Okay. But, you know, obviously the edge district is growing. Grand Central District is growing. And we recognize that the growth of all of these districts is super important to just our growth as an urban center in general. So we're super excited to work with our friends over at the edge district of Grand Central District on this event, really strengthening that partnership for future endeavors. Right, I see, because they're all different nonprofits as they go along. That's pretty cool. I get it. So, hey, talk to me about the it has here that you guys were responsible for purchasing the land for the USF St. Pete campus and also you acted as the developer for the geologic survey in St. Pete lab. Tell us about that. Yes, yes. It was way before my time, but back in the 60s, the partnership was really just the collection of business owners. And they recognize that it'd be super important to have an educational institution in downtown St. Pete to provide a really good source for the workforce. Okay. Together bought up all the land around the water, went to the state of Florida and said, hey, we'll give you this land if you're willing to put an educational institution on it. And that's how the USF St. Pete's for campus was originally born back in the 60s. Oh, that's so cool to know. Okay. As an alumni of that campus, that was one of the main things for encouraging me to work here. It was really giving back to that thing that brought me to St. Pete to begin with. Now, all you folks across the country right now, you got to Google USF and St. Pete, because I'm telling you, it's amazing. You know, it's wild in the cold. So we're at 300 4th Avenue South, right? So what happens is that there's like four commercial spaces. We have two of them here. And what's so cool folks is that there's a lot of kids that go to USF that have apartments here. So they're so excited now because last year, you know, they it was virtual. Do you know what I mean? And this year they're back here and you can see the excitement. I was talking to them and they're also excited, particularly the seniors, right? Do you know what I mean? Because it's like, oh, man, that would have really stunk if you know, you virtually, you know, but that's really that's really cool, man. Well, you guys have done an amazing job. And, you know, this this locking down central lab is going to be phenomenal because we have the bones of the city folks is amazing. They're just amazing. And, you know, as Nicole was just explaining, you know, we're going to have what that 16 that's that's what he was ninth. Well, we get 20. There's going to be 23 blocks that are shut down. They can walk. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. It'll be an amazing event. So yeah, we really encourage everyone to come out just experience the heart of St. Pete from a unique experience you might have never experienced it from before. And I hope to see you out there, Tom. Will you join us? I'm definitely going to be out there. So it's a 31st, right? 31st. Okay. 12 to 5 p.m. Be sure to wear costumes. We'll have a lot of different costume contests. I'm going to be the tiger. Oh, perfect. Tom the tiger. I love it. Well, listen, this is always a pleasure. Thank you so much doing a great job. And, of course, we're going to be out there growling a problem with you guys. Oh, perfect. Yeah. Excited to see you and it's great to be on again. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Have a great one. Have a safe one.