{"id":16137,"date":"2025-10-22T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16137\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:59:16","slug":"st-pete-rising-everything-new-and-coming-soon-to-st-pete-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16137\/","title":{"rendered":"St Pete Rising &#8211; Everything new and coming soon to St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Five years ago, the City of St. Petersburg unveiled the long-anticipated St. Pete Pier and its sprawling 26-acre district, reconnecting downtown to the waterfront. Today, it has become a signature landmark, drawing millions of tourists and residents each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">To celebrate the Pier&#8217;s five-year milestone, the City of St. Petersburg is hosting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetepierfest.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PierFest<\/a>\u2014a month-long series of family-friendly events every weekend in July. Festivities will include live performances by local bands, sand sculptures, a drone show, fireworks, and more at the St. Pete Pier District, located at 600 2nd Avenue NE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The celebration kicks off on July 4th with the annual<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stpeterunfest.org\/st-pete-pier-run\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> St. Pete Pier Run<\/a>, a 4-mile course that begins near Spa Beach, winds along the scenic waterfront, and finishes at the Pier.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/st-pete-pier-celebrates-five-years-with-month-long-festival-featuring-drone-show-fireworks-live-music-ice-cream-festival-and-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years ago, the City of St. Petersburg unveiled the long-anticipated St. Pete Pier and its sprawling 26-acre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-16137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137","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=16137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}