{"id":293467,"date":"2026-06-02T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293467\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:48:10","slug":"warby-parker-to-open-first-st-pete-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293467\/","title":{"rendered":"Warby Parker to open first St. Pete store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 2, 2026 &#8211; Warby Parker will open its first St. Petersburg location at 1124 Central Avenue in the EDGE District, bringing the popular eyewear retailer\u2019s prescription glasses, sunglasses, contact lenses and eye care services to downtown. The store will occupy the former Bacon Bitch space in a property owned by Dallas-based investment firm 90Ten, which has invested $18.5 million in the district since December. While an opening date has not been announced, the company is already hiring staff and plans to offer eye exams, prescription updates and a full lineup of eyewear products. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warbyparker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Warby Parker<\/a> joins a growing roster of businesses expanding in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgedistrict.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">EDGE District<\/a>.<\/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":"June 2, 2026 &#8211; Warby Parker will open its first St. Petersburg location at 1124 Central Avenue in&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-293467","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\/293467","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=293467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293467\/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=293467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}