{"id":171,"date":"2025-10-13T18:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:23:14","slug":"59-million-second-district-court-of-appeal-courthouse-set-to-open-in-december-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171\/","title":{"rendered":"$59 million Second District Court of Appeal Courthouse set to open in December in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A major milestone for Florida\u2019s judicial system is nearing completion as the new $59 million Second District Court of Appeal Courthouse prepares to open its doors in downtown St. Petersburg in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Located at 525 Mirror Lake Drive North, the three-story, 59,516-square-foot facility sits just one block from City Hall, near the Pinellas County Clerk of Court and other key government buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The courthouse will serve the Sixth Judicial Circuit (Pinellas and Pasco counties), the 12th Circuit (Sarasota, Manatee, and DeSoto counties), and the 13th Circuit (Hillsborough County). <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The court reviews appeals of trial court decisions from across its district, serving as an intermediary between local circuit courts and the Florida Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It is named the Bernie McCabe Second District Court of Appeal Courthouse, honoring the late State Attorney for Florida\u2019s Sixth Judicial Circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major milestone for Florida\u2019s judicial system is nearing completion as the new $59 million Second District Court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-171","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\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}