{"id":44290,"date":"2025-11-12T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:30:09","slug":"city-revives-148-million-plan-to-modernize-downtown-st-pete-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44290\/","title":{"rendered":"City revives $148 million plan to modernize downtown St. Pete marina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The City of St. Pete is once again seeking a contractor to repair and redevelop the aging St. Petersburg Municipal Marina along the downtown waterfront.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Through a new Request for Qualifications (RFQ), the city is soliciting experienced design-build firms to oversee a modernization of the 640-slip facility. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The RFQ comes just months after the city terminated negotiations with Safe Harbor Marinas, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/welch-selects-group-to-reimagine-st-pete-municipal-marina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">which had been selected in late 2023<\/a> to lead the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The new plan represents a major shift in approach with the city will now retaining full ownership and control of the marina, rather than leasing the marina to a private operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Another major difference from the previous plan is the total project cost, which has risen to an estimated $148 million\u2014nearly triple the $48 million cost previously estimated by Safe Harbor Marinas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">According to the RFQ, the selected group will manage the design and construction of a 100% floating dock system, as well as a new ship store, new bathhouses, administrative offices, dock houses, maintenance facilities, fueling facilities, seawalls, utilities, and a bridge connecting Demens Landing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of St. Pete is once again seeking a contractor to repair and redevelop the aging St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-44290","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\/44290","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=44290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}