INDIAN SHORES \u2014 Town officials broke ground Jan. 5 on the William J. Krajewski Public Safety Building, a two-story facility that will house police and emergency equipment.<\/p>\n
The $256,000 structure behind the municipal center will replace off-site rental storage and provide secure space for equipment previously vulnerable to salt air damage.<\/p>\n
The J.J. Ganno Trust donated $125,000 toward construction through Johanna Liadis, widow of the building’s namesake, William J. Krajewski. The town is covering the remaining $131,000 from reserves.<\/p>\n
Krajewski, a Redington Shores resident, wanted to honor former Chief Richard H. Swann, who led the department serving both communities.<\/p>\n
“Chief Swann brought honesty and integrity to the job,” Liadis said during the ceremony.<\/p>\n
Town Administrator Tina Porter said she was excited about partnering with the trust on the project.<\/p>\n
General contractor Lucas Lawson of ACE Construction in St. Petersburg estimates completion in 72 days, barring complications.<\/p>\n
The ceremony included the full Town Council, Liadis, Porter, Swann, current Police Chief Lee Ann Holroyd, and Mayor Diantha Schear, who called the project a milestone.<\/p>\n
“This building is going to be an important addition to the Indian Shores Municipal Center, to the police department and to the community and town as a whole,” Schear said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN SHORES \u2014 Town officials broke ground Jan. 5 on the William J. Krajewski Public Safety Building, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2152,32370,58816,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,58815],"class_list":{"0":"post-116625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-development","9":"tag-indian-shores","10":"tag-jj-ganno-trust","11":"tag-pinellas-county","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-william-j-krajewski"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}