{"id":43673,"date":"2025-11-12T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43673\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:32:08","slug":"construction-starts-on-lofts-on-1300-at-1300-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-street-north-st-petersburg-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43673\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Starts on &#8216;Lofts on 1300&#8217; at 1300 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street North, St. Petersburg, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"777\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-11-at-7.26.23-PM-777x425.png\" class=\"u-photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Image from St. Pete Rising <\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"> By: <a rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"fn p-author h-card\" href=\"https:\/\/floridayimby.com\/author\/colt\" target=\"_blank\">Colt Dodd<\/a> 7:00 am on November 12, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Developer David Hofstadter is moving forward with a multi-family housing development north of downtown St. Petersburg. Construction is expected to take no more than 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Lofts on 1300 will measure three stories above grade and comprise nine luxury apartments. Plans call for four ground-floor residences and five upper-floor lofts measuring two stories. The two-bedroom homes will span 1,500 to 1,700 square feet and host various high-end finishings, including quartz countertops and energy-efficient appliances.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-11-at-7.27.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"596\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the build site; the venture will replace two single-family homes. Image from Google Earth<\/p>\n<p>The ground-floor residences will feature patios and in-home offices; the upper-floor units will feature balconies. Lofts on 1300 will also include 10 covered surface parking spots. Rent is anticipated to start at about $3,500 a month; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/rental-manager\/market-trends\/saint-petersburg-fl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zillow<\/a>, the average cost of rent in St. Petersburg is currently $2,221.<\/p>\n<p>Hofstadter purchased the project\u2019s site for $848,000 in 2024. Lofts on 1300 will replace two single-family homes. The site currently has a CRT-1 (Corridor Residential Traditional-1) designation, which allows for the project\u2019s construction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/lofts-on-1300-to-bring-luxury-apartments-to-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-street-north\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Pete Rising<\/a> reports that other involved parties on the project include G2 Design, Hunter Design and Consulting, Howard Civil Engineering, and HSI Engineering LLC. Lofts on 1300 is set for the 0.37-acre site at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/zsBQMwBtreTZdge78\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1300 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street North, St. Petersburg, Florida<\/a>, 33705, in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hud0UH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> to YIMBY\u2019s daily e-mail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/yimbygram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YIMBYFB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like<\/a>\u00a0YIMBY on Facebook<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yimbytweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBY\u2019s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridayimby.com\/category\/uncategorized\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uncategorized<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image from St. Pete Rising By: Colt Dodd 7:00 am on November 12, 2025 Developer David Hofstadter is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-43673","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\/43673","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=43673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}