{"id":34917,"date":"2025-11-05T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34917\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:49:07","slug":"swedish-firm-finishes-st-petersburg-apartment-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34917\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish firm finishes St. Petersburg apartment construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h864707-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Skanska, the Swedish construction company with a significant local presence, has completed work on a 400-unit apartment community in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h864707-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">The complex is the Marina Club Apartments at 4341 34th St. S. in the city\u2019s Skyway Marina District.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h864707-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The developer is Allied Group Holdings.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h864707-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Skanska says it was able to deliver the community \u201cin a faster and more efficient and resilient manner\u201d because of its use of precast methods. (Precast construction is where building components are manufactured off-site and then transported to the site.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"h864707-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Marina Club has studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging from 500 square feet to 1,200 square feet. The property has views of have Boca Ciega Bay and the downtown St. Pete skyline.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h864707-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">Among its amenities are a fitness center and yoga room, clubhouse with indoor games, workspaces and conference rooms, bocce ball court, and dog park.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h864707-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">There is also a 290,000-square-foot, two-story podium parking garage and first-floor retail space designed for restaurants, shops and other service-oriented retailers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h864707-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">Skanska USA was founded in 1971 and employs more than 7,300 people. It has more than 30 offices in the U.S., including Tampa, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h864707-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">Among its local projects are the St. Petersburg Pier; Coachman Park in downtown Clearwater; the University of South Florida Health\u2019s Morsani College of Medicine &amp; Heart Institute at Water Street Tampa; and the renovation and expansion of the Tampa Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skanska, the Swedish construction company with a significant local presence, has completed work on a 400-unit apartment community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-34917","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\/34917","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=34917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}