{"id":356281,"date":"2026-07-29T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:49:07","slug":"long-center-pools-to-reopen-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356281\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Center pools to reopen Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 29, 2026 &#8211; In February 2025, a natatorium (multi-pool complex) renovation project began at the Clearwater-based Long Center. The City will reopen the facility&#8217;s pools, at 1501 N. Belcher Road, to the public Friday at 3 p.m. The <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/deep-dive-inside-clearwaters-long-center-renovations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$12.6 million dollar effort<\/a> included the creation of a new building enclosure and roof. Additionally, updated pool mechanical equipment, new surface coating and tile and a solar power system were installed. To celebrate the occasion, a welcome-back pool party is scheduled for Friday afternoon. To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myclearwater.com\/Neighborhood-Map-Locations\/Recreation-Centers\/Long-Center\/Long-Center-Pool-Reopens-July-31-Renovations-Complete\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link.<\/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":"July 29, 2026 &#8211; In February 2025, a natatorium (multi-pool complex) renovation project began at the Clearwater-based Long&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-356281","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\/356281","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=356281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356281\/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=356281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}