{"id":89617,"date":"2025-12-19T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89617\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:18:08","slug":"central-avenue-makeover-would-prioritize-pedestrians-over-parking-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89617\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Avenue makeover would prioritize pedestrians over parking in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The improvements also allow for additional outdoor seating for the 4,936 square feet of ground-floor retail at Art House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The broader vision would extend these improvements east toward 2nd Street on both sides of Central Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In total, about 35 on-street parking spaces would be removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The plan also includes traffic-calming features like a mid-block crosswalk, an elevated speed table, and upgraded crosswalks at both the 2nd and 3rd Street intersections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Funding for the project is expected to come from a mix of private fundraising by property owners and contributions from the City of St. Petersburg and the Intown Community Redevelopment Area.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">While there\u2019s no timeline yet for phases two and three, the completed Art House streetscape offers a glimpse of how this stretch of Central Avenue could continue to evolve as part of a broader shift toward streets designed for people, not just cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The improvements also allow for additional outdoor seating for the 4,936 square feet of ground-floor retail at Art&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-89617","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\/89617","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=89617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}