{"id":23546,"date":"2025-10-28T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/23546\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:16:11","slug":"publix-wants-to-rebuild-st-pete-beach-store-destroyed-by-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/23546\/","title":{"rendered":"Publix wants to rebuild St. Pete Beach store destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

The Bixmore Property Group announced its intention to rebuild a new Publix store at Dolphin Village in St Pete Beach.<\/p>\n

In May of this year, a huge fire started at neighboring CVS and spread to the Publix, causing major damage.<\/p>\n

If approved, the new store will replace the existing 33,000-square-foot Publix with a larger, approximately 51,000 square-foot supermarket, featuring covered parking below the elevated store level.<\/p>\n

ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. – Brixmor Property Group has announced its intention to rebuild the Publix at Dolphin Village in St. Pete Beach<\/a>.\u00a0 Numerous stores in the shopping plaza sustained significant damage after a fire ripped through the complex in May.<\/p>\n

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What we know<\/p>\n

Brixmor Property Group will submit development plans to the City of St. Pete Beach for consideration.\u00a0 If approved, the new store will replace the existing 33,000-square-foot Publix with a larger, approximately 51,000 square-foot supermarket, featuring covered parking below the elevated store level. <\/p>\n

\"<div>Courtesy:<\/p>\n

Courtesy: Brixmor Property Group<\/p>\n

The Publix was the key anchor in the Dolphin Village shopping center, a major hub for the community and tourists alike.<\/p>\n

“Publix is a vital part of Dolphin Village and the only full-service grocery store on the island,” said Matthew Ryan, regional president of Brixmor Property Group. “We are proud to partner with Publix on this next-generation store. We remain deeply committed to the community by working closely with the city to rebuild and revitalize Dolphin Village for future generations.”<\/p>\n

The backstory<\/p>\n

A large fire destroyed a CVS store in St. Pete Beach, then spread to Publix and other stores in the Dolphin Village shopping center in May 2025. \u00a0Smoke from the three-alarm fire could be seen for miles.<\/p>\n

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St. Pete Beach Communications Manager Marc Portugal said CVS\u2019 roof partially collapsed, but crews contained the fire around six p.m.<\/p>\n

Then, around 9 p.m., hot spots ignited in the building\u2019s front facade and the fire spread, damaging several other stores, like the Publix, Swim City, Hungry Howie\u2019s, an AT&T store and the UPS shop.<\/p>\n

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Neighbors were stunned to see the damage as the stores just recently reopened after suffering damage from Hurricanes Helene and Milton.<\/p>\n

There were no injuries in the blaze.<\/p>\n

What we don’t know<\/p>\n

If all is approved, it will be several years with project entitlements, approvals and the construction process before the Publix store opening date is to be determined. \u00a0 <\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

This story was written with information gathered from the Brixmor Property Group, and previous FOX 13 News reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Bixmore Property Group announced its intention to rebuild a new Publix store at Dolphin Village…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[18082,18086,18085,18083,2231,202,2149,204,203,199,201,200,18084],"class_list":["post-23546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-brixmor-property-group","tag-cvs-store","tag-dolphin-village","tag-property-group","tag-publix","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-beach","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-store-level"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23546","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=23546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}