{"id":198176,"date":"2026-03-19T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198176\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:28:12","slug":"st-pete-launches-feasibility-study-for-downtown-convention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198176\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete launches feasibility study for downtown convention center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The City of St. Petersburg has long lacked sufficient meeting and conference space, often pushing event organizers to look elsewhere. That could soon change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The city is seeking proposals from qualified consultants to conduct a comprehensive feasibility study evaluating the viability of a proposed convention center in downtown St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The study will assess market demand, competitive positioning, facility program requirements, financial performance and overall economic impact, according to a Request for Proposals (RFP) advertised on March 11th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The selected consultant will analyze regional and national industry trends, engage key stakeholders, identify demand segments and unmet market opportunities, and benchmark against comparable and innovative convention center models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The consultant would make a series of recommendations for a convention center, including detailing size requirements and ancillary needs such as exhibit halls, ballrooms, kitchen and food service, parking, technology infrastructure and hotel requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of St. Petersburg has long lacked sufficient meeting and conference space, often pushing event organizers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-198176","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\/198176","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=198176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}