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5/26/08 Real Estate Professionals Tour
On Tuesday, May 20th, the City of St. Petersburg’s
Economic Development Department along with Pinellas County Economic
Development and the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership presented a tour of
downtown St. Petersburg to almost 150 commercial brokers, developers, and
other real estate professionals.
The morning began with a networking reception at First Central Tower where the tour participants were able to meet each other and network.
The City’s Economic Development staff then took the participants on a
comprehensive tour of our downtown. The tour highlighted the different
office space opportunities in the downtown business district. These include
a range of spaces in our premier office towers, recently renovated historic
properties, and smaller unique office properties throughout downtown. The
tour included a stop at the 100 Bay Central building where the participants
were viewed the space that is currently available for lease at that
facility.
In addition to the office space availabilities downtown the
tour focused on the continually evolving face of the entire downtown
community. The tour highlighted many downtown amenities and attributes
including the new Progress Energy Center for the Arts, the Bayboro Marine
Science District, the City’s 7-mile long waterfront park system, the
growing hospital and medical cluster, and the new residential projects
throughout the downtown core.
The tour concluded at the Museum of Fine Arts with a lunch
program that featured as speakers St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership
President, Dr. Peter Betzer; St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker; and Museum of
Fine Arts Assistant Director, Roger Zeh.
This tour was organized to showcase the numerous office space
and development opportunities that exist in downtown St. Petersburg to a
wide variety of both local and regional commercial real estate
professionals. St. Petersburg’s downtown is currently experiencing a
boon of growth and development, with approximately $1.3 billion in projects
built since 2001 or currently under construction. Downtown is home to 7,700
residents with more than 26,000 employees and growing. Fostering economic
opportunity is one of the key factors in developing a vibrant and dynamic
city and this tour showed that downtown St. Petersburg is a place where
businesses, their employees and families, as well as their clients can
truly thrive.
Various
downtown businesses, economic development entities, and other stakeholders
stepped in to sponsor and support the fantastic event. The tour was able to
show the participants what a dynamic environment St. Petersburg’s downtown
has become. If you would like more information on the tour or further
leasing and development opportunities in downtown, please contact Andrea
Falvey at (727) 893-7035 or andrea.falvey@stpete.org
To preview
the St. Petersburg Times article on this event, click here.
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