{"id":370856,"date":"2026-08-14T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370856\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:32:09","slug":"demolition-to-begin-for-edge-collective-ii-a-20-story-apartment-tower-set-to-rise-in-the-edge-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370856\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition to begin for EDGE Collective II, a 20-story apartment tower set to rise in the EDGE District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The interior corridors will connect smaller storefronts along Central Avenue and 11th Street South with larger retail spaces facing 1st Avenue South. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">PTM Partners expects the retail space to include a mix of national and local businesses, with opportunities for restaurants, art galleries, and other smaller operators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe intention is to create corridors off Central where residents, pedestrians, and visitors can find different experiences,\u201d said Michael Tillman, CEO of PTM Partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Tillman added that they believe 1st Avenue South will become increasingly important as development moves forward across the street at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/residents\/current_projects\/historic_gas_plant.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Historic Gas Plant District<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cCentral Avenue is amazing, but so is 1st Avenue South,\u201d Tillman said. \u201cWhatever ends up happening on the Gas Plant site will only make that 1st Avenue South corridor more pedestrianized and more active.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Residents of the new apartment tower will have access to a seventh-floor amenity deck featuring a pool, spa, fitness center, coworking and meeting spaces, and a media room. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The interior corridors will connect smaller storefronts along Central Avenue and 11th Street South with larger retail spaces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-370856","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\/370856","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=370856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}