The bar is hosting a 4-day welcome back event<\/a>\u00a0complete with live music and a Halloween party.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s been one long vacation, but the wait is finally over. St. Pete, we\u2019ve missed your cheers, your sing-alongs, and those nights when the music carried us long after the sun went down. On October 30 at 5 p.m., Jimmy B\u2019s is back. The stage is set, the taps are flowing, and the deck is ready for dancing. After a year of quiet, it\u2019s time to turn the volume all the way up,\u201d a social media post from Jimmy B\u2019s states.<\/p>\n
Odise Armata, who owns Odi\u2019s Mediterranean Kitchen across from the hotel, says he\u2019s fallen behind on bills since the hurricanes. He says part of the reason is because some of the major beach resorts have not yet reopened, causing a large lull in foot traffic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just broke our hearts here because this is our everything,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is our life\u2026 that\u2019s our family here at the store.\u201d<\/p>\n
Armata has been in business for 18 years and says even some of his local customers have not yet returned since the storms. He\u2019s hoping things begin to turn around Thursday when the doors of the Beachcomber reopen. Armata says foot traffic and more people staying in St. Pete Beach who will walk to his business is what he needs the most.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout them\u2026 we cannot do it. We really need them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Postcard Inn, Dolphin Beach Resort, and Bellwether Beach Resort remain closed on St. Pete Beach.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The Beachcomber and adjacent Jimmy B\u2019s Beach Bar are reopening Thursday evening for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1564,274,558,770,28,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,835],"class_list":["post-30906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-angie-angers","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-community-news","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30906","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=30906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}