{"id":134048,"date":"2026-01-27T21:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:58:44","slug":"twitch-streamer-tfue-buys-woodys-waterfront-in-st-pete-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134048\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch streamer Tfue buys Woody\u2019s Waterfront in St. Pete Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Woody\u2019s Waterfront in days past. Credit: David Warner<\/p>\n

Another St. Pete Beach restaurant destroyed by the 2024 hurricanes has a second chance. <\/p>\n

Woody\u2019s Waterfront in St. Pete Beach, which served patrons for 35 years before its closure, is now owned by Twitch video game streamer Turner Tenney, aka Tfue<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He purchased the property at 7308 Sunset Way for $2.4 million, per St. Pete Rising. That\u2019s nearly half of what Woody\u2019s owners and sisters Marlo George and Roxene Riles listed the restaurant and two adjacent empty lots for last year. Their parents purchased the three parcels in 1989 for $526,100. <\/p>\n

The 2,394-square-foot building started as a bait house in the 1940s, later turning into the Sunset Inn, then the iconic Woody\u2019s Restaurant and Bar. Its longtime slogan was \u201cSo close to the water, your burger will get wet!\u201d <\/p>\n

Tenney lives in Indian Rocks Beach, where he streams games like Fortnite to more than 11.4 million followers on Twitch<\/a> and 11.7 million on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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