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Mussett says the city loaned the museum money in 2004 to get them to move from the old Maas Brothers store on 2^nd Street, to a much smaller location in St. Petersburg College on 2^nd Avenue North. That allowed the city to sell the Maas Brothers site for a new Progress Energy tower and a new resort hotel and condominiums.

“I think it’s a pretty good deal, we give $260,000 and we sold the land that they gave up for $5-million, do the math, we’re over four-and-a half million ahead,” said Mussett