If you’ve driven downtown in the past few months and noticed construction going on at the old Bank of America building on Central Avenue, between 8th Street North and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Street North, you might be curious as to what’s going on there. I was. The building had been slated for demolition, [...]
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There are a lot of things to like about downtown St. Petersburg these days. New energy, new attitude, new restaurants, new art museums and galleries… And a new bakery! For me, this is one of those areas where my response today is pretty much the same as it would have been when [...] Sometimes, I’m very up to date on what’s happening in our city. But on occasion, I miss something big. I recently stumbled across this new Pinellas County Job Corps complex in St. Petersburg, at the corner of 5th Avenue South and 22nd Street. The 166,000 square foot Center fills an entire block across the street from the [...] Dale Chihuly, whose amazing fine art glass creations are known the world over, has chosen St. Petersburg for his first ever permanent collection/gallery. Although the initial plans were made in 2005, the economic downturn wreaked havoc on the early plans, which involved combining a Chihuly gallery and studio with a new arts condo in downtown St. [...] One of the huge attractions of St. Petersburg is the abundance of water for sport and for play. Within 30 minutes of us, people can get to the Gulf, the Bay, Hillsborough River, or any number of lakes. And once they get to those bodies of water, there are any number of activities that they can [...] Cassis American Brasserie has taken over the empty space on the Beach Drive side of the Ovation Condominium building, promising an ‘affordable French-American brasserie menu’. The restaurant began limited operations last weekend in an invitation-only setting, allowing the chefs and servers to get comfortable without being overwhelmed. It was due to open to the public [...] Although almost all of my posts are about St. Petersburg life, I actually do leave the city limits sometimes! And if there’s something nearby, something that I can get to without too long a drive, then it’s worth telling you about it, because you can, too. Yesterday, I went to Honeymoon Island, just west of Dunedin, [...] I’ve been wanting to get down to the Saturday Morning Market for weeks, but each weekend, there has been something getting in my way. This past weekend, I finally made it down there, and what a treat it was! Beautiful blue skies and sunshine, temperatures right around the low seventies, live music, lots of fresh [...] Each year, the Florida Orchestra, working with local designers and developers, hosts a Designer Show House as a fundraiser for the orchestra. Typically, the venue is a house, but this year, it’s at the gorgeous new Ovation condominiums in downtown St. Petersburg. There are two condos featured, each decorated by several different local companies and [...] The Vinoy Basin in downtown St. Petersburg provides a safe place for traveling boaters to drop anchor for a few hours or a few days, protected from the more open waters of Tampa Bay or the Gulf of Mexico. On the day that I took this photograph last week, there were about a dozen boats anchored [...] |
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