{"id":22580,"date":"2025-10-27T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:58:56","slug":"the-mariel-set-for-october-groundbreaking-at-1201-martin-luther-king-jr-street-north-st-petersburg-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22580\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Mariel&#8217; Set for October Groundbreaking at 1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Street North, St. Petersburg, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boutique townhome development is undergoing construction just minutes away from downtown St. Petersburg. The Mariel will replace the Dairy Inn ice cream parlor, which operated for more than 70 years before closing in 2023. The 646-square-foot caf\u00e9 was not deemed historically significant and was demolished.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariel is set to offer six luxury townhomes in two buildings. The three-story residences will span just over 2,800 square feet, featuring three bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms, along with a \u201cbonus room.\u201d In-unit amenities include top-of-the-line appliances, 12-foot-high ceilings, and two-car garages, among other finishings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-09-16-at-11.42.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"486\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dairy Inn ice cream parlor prior to its demolition. Image from Google Earth<\/p>\n<p>The Mariel was previously referred to as \u201cThe Brentwood Villas\u201d before changing names. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/investor-scoops-up-dairy-inn-site-for-luxury-townhome-development\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Pete Rising\u2019s<\/a> 2024 report, homes were to start at $1.4 million. Construction is anticipated to start in October and take 14 months to complete, where the homes will be delivered in a single phase.<\/p>\n<p>Shell Basix Design\/Build is the developer. Baysite Engineering is the civil engineer, and Fraze Design is the architect. The Vance Group purchased the Mariel\u2019s build site for $740,000 in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariel is set for groundbreaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/aVHcUC1xEr2zCYxm8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Street North, St. Petersburg, Florida<\/a>, 33701, in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hud0UH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> to YIMBY\u2019s daily e-mail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/yimbygram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YIMBYFB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like<\/a>\u00a0YIMBY on Facebook<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yimbytweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBY\u2019s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridayimby.com\/category\/uncategorized\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uncategorized<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boutique townhome development is undergoing construction just minutes away from downtown St. Petersburg. The Mariel will replace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-22580","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\/22580","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=22580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}