{"id":222209,"date":"2026-04-07T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222209\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:04:31","slug":"pinellas-approves-palm-harbor-rec-center-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222209\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas approves Palm Harbor rec center project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 7, 2026 &#8211; Pinellas County commissioners approved a $14.5 million contract to build a two-story recreation center and hurricane shelter on the 16th Street campus in Palm Harbor. Funded through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinellascounty.org\/penny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Penny for Pinellas<\/a> program, the 28,000-square-foot facility will include a gym, indoor walking track and event space, and is expected to take up to two years to complete. The hardened structure will also serve as an 800-person emergency shelter to address a shortage of non-school facilities in north county.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 7, 2026 &#8211; Pinellas County commissioners approved a $14.5 million contract to build a two-story recreation center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-222209","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\/222209","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=222209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}