{"id":60624,"date":"2025-11-25T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/60624\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:16:07","slug":"st-pete-rising-everything-new-and-coming-soon-to-st-pete-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/60624\/","title":{"rendered":"St Pete Rising &#8211; Everything new and coming soon to St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">A years-long effort to bring a key stretch of the CSX rail corridor in downtown St. Pete into public ownership, including the segment that cuts directly through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fergssportsbar.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ferg\u2019s Sports Bar &amp; Grill<\/a>, is finally moving forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">According to an October 15th email from St. Pete Transportation and Parking Management Director Evan Mory, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csx.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CSX Transportation<\/a> has accepted a conditional offer from the City of St. Pete to acquire nearly a mile of rail right-of-way stretching from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street along 1st Avenue South to 5th Avenue North. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The purchase is expected to cost $7 million, with $1 million coming from the City of St. Pete, $4 million from Mark Ferguson of Ferg\u2019s Sports Bar, and $2 million from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ellisondevelopment.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ellison Development<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The offer cannot move forward without City Council approval, which is expected within the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/st-pete-reaches-preliminary-deal-to-buy-csx-rail-line-running-through-downtown-st-pete\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A years-long effort to bring a key stretch of the CSX rail corridor in downtown St. Pete into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-60624","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\/60624","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=60624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}