The Shops at St. Pete Construction to Begin Soon
Crews are expected to break ground on the $30 million dollar renovation within 30 days.
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Construction on the major renovation at The Shops at St. Pete, formerly BayWalk, is expected to begin within 30 days, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Kevin Dunn, a representative of The Edwards Group, told the Times, "A lot of things have to come together in the next couple weeks but that's the intent." This following the city council's unanimous approval of the designs for the project last Thursday.
The 80,000-square-foot complex will have a modern look with straight, clean lines and include natural stone floors, the Times reports. The Shops at St. Pete will feature more outdoor dining with covered walkways and canopies over balconies, according to the newspaper.
Developer Bill Edwards told Patch in a previous story that the future complex will have three "very iconic" restaurants to anchor the complex.
According to documents on The Shops at St. Pete website, construction is slated to start in March, with tenant permitting in July and August and tenant construction running September 2013 through January 2014. Officials are planning for a project grand opening in February 2014.
The project is being headed by Edwards, CEO of Mortgage Investors Corp and The Club at Treasure Island. He also runs a music production company that last year won the city's contract to manage the Mahaffey Theater.
St. Pete Patch attached The Edwards Group 2012 Year End Project Summary Outline to this article.
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Rider
12:05 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
what a horrendously boring design.....the present Spanish motif is so much better. What is going on with these power brokers in St Pete? Why are they so fixated on the contemporary and not classic? this is not distinctive, whatsoever.....
Babak
2:11 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
I concur, we need to stick to the Mediterranean Revival style that has come to define St Pete architecture. It is quite sad that the current design couldn't have been salvaged.
Rider
2:52 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
It could have, they just chose not to.....and that bell tower that they tore down was a very cool structure. What is going to happen to Muvico? No multiple views of this plan......are they going to tear it down for parking and Muvico relocate to Tyrone Mall (Tyrone just secured the right for the next three years to build cinemas, according to the Times)....or are they going to "bland-or-ize" that structure too? Wondering how mainstream movies blend in with upscale shopping and dining. Foreign films and art house cinemas are the usual in that demographic. Besides, how can a city the size of St Pete (with a mass exodus of snowbirds and college students every spring thru fall) support a megaplex with 20 screens, especially when Park Place Cinemas are right up the road with free parking and oodles of affordable restaurants and pubs.
BayProud
2:17 pm on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Ah yes... another monument to the self-centered egomaniac who wants to be king of St. Petersburg since he can't be Donald Trump. About 200 people in the Bay area will be able to afford anything sold in that glossed-over strip mall.