{"id":382385,"date":"2026-08-27T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:30:21","slug":"coast-guard-awards-60m-contract-to-improve-sector-st-petersburg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382385\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard awards $60M contract to improve Sector St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"breadcrumbs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/homelandprepnews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/homelandprepnews.com\/stories\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> \u00bb Coast Guard awards $60M contract to improve Sector St. Petersburg<\/p>\n<p>                                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"storyFeatured\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA1MDAgMzM0IiB3aWR0aD0iNTAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjMzNCIgZGF0YS11PSJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRmhvbWVsYW5kcHJlcG5ld3MuY29tJTJGd3AtY29udGVudCUyRnVwbG9hZHMlMkYyMDI2JTJGMDglMkZzaHV0dGVyc3RvY2tfNTEyMDY1OTAwLmpwZyIgZGF0YS13PSI1MDAiIGRhdGEtaD0iMzM0IiBkYXRhLWJpcD0iIj48L3N2Zz4=\" data-spai=\"1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard recently awarded Massachusetts-based Tutor Perini Corp. a $60 million contract to repair, recapitalize and improve waterfront facilities at Sector St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Sector St. Petersburg is a homeport for Coast Guard cutters. The contract will support the removal and rebuilding of facilities damaged by Hurricane Helene and new infrastructure that will support future Fast Response Cutter operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvesting in Sector St. Petersburg\u2019s waterfront infrastructure is an investment in Coast Guard readiness,\u201d Capt. Courtney Sergent, Sector St. Petersburg commander, said. \u201cThis project will restore storm-damaged facilities, modernize critical shore support, and give our crews the resilient infrastructure they need to operate, maintain, and deploy cutters along Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Work will include demolishing damaged facilities; building new berthing and marine maintenance facilities and a multipurpose training facility; building a waterfront bulkhead and upgrading berth strength to accommodate crane operations and new mooring fenders and hardware; building a maintenance and weapons detachment facility; adding new stormwater management facilities, a boat ramp and a fuel station; improvements to the buoy storage lot to facilitate access and stormwater management; and installing shore utility connections and waterfront lighting.<\/p>\n<p>Work is expected to be completed in summer 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home \u00bb News \u00bb Coast Guard awards $60M contract to improve Sector St. Petersburg \u00a9 Shutterstock The U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-382385","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\/382385","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=382385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}