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· A 13,650-square-foot Walgreen’s
Pharmacy at 7676 Fourth St. N has been completed. Fourth North
Retail, located along 4th Street North between 48th
and 50th Avenue. The project has over 16,320 SF retail
space and fully occupied. Tenants include: Vino101, Mattress Firm.
· Hooters restaurant has
opened a new location on Roosevelt Boulevard between Fourth Street North
and Martin Luther King Street.
· Gold’s Gym has recently
completed its $1 million, 26,000-square-foot expansion and renovation at 203 38th Ave. N., making it the largest Gold’s Gym in Pinellas County.
· J.CON Salon and Spa has expanded their
successful business and renovated a former Luby’s Cafeteria at 5811 Fourth St. N. The 9,200-square-foot facility offers hair, nail and makeup services, day
spa, massage, aromatherapy and skin care.
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Mixed-Use:
· Located at the
entrance of the Carillon Office Park is the Carillon Town Center, a 145,000-square-foot, mixed-use center anchored by a new Publix supermarket.
The project includes an additional 100,000 SF retail, 700,000 SF office
space, a 120-unit hotel and 384 residential units to be developed
· Snug Harbor Plaza is a proposed retail
project by Clark East at CDE with the List Group, owning property to the
east for future residential development plans.
· La Entrada Park is a 2.6 million
square foot, 122-acre, mixed-use development consisting of 1,000,000 square
feet of office space, 700,000 square feet of manufacturing, 523,000 square
feet of warehousing, 308,000 square feet of commercial, residential, and a
250-room hotel. The project is being developed by Grady Pridgen, Inc.
and is expected to generate 1,800 jobs once completed.
· Grady Pridgen, Inc.
has announced a 21.5-acre, mixed-use project, known as the Celotex-Pridgen
site, at 10301 M.L.K. St. N. There will be 150,000 square feet of office,
350 apartments, 13,000 square feet of restaurants, 24,400 square feet of
retail space, a 12,000-square-foot pharmacy with a drive-thru, and three
parking structures. The cost of the project is estimated at $75 million.
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Commercial:
· The new Hilton Hotel
is a nine story, full-service luxury hotel. The property features 217 guest
rooms, 15,000 SF of meeting space, plus an addition 8,000 SF ballroom. The
Salvador Dali museum serves the hotel’s gift shop and the lounge and
restaurant feature lighted glass sculpture designed by Dale Chihuly.
· Echelon Real Estate
Services constructed a new spec Class A office tower, Echelon Point
adjacent to the Hilton Hotel of Carillon. It consists of 125,000 SF and is
connected to the hotel, parking lot and parking garage facilities.
Smith&Nephew have leased 40,000 sf, taking one and a half floors at the
high-end office building, located at 970 Lake Carillon Drive.
· First Advantage, a provider of
screening and risk mitigation solutions, has leased 74,000 square feet at
100 Carillon for its expanding operations. The company’s revenue has
increased by $100 million (60 percent) over the past year as it
successfully acquires competitors throughout the nation.
· Accenture has relocated from
downtown St. Petersburg to the Franklin Templeton Funds Management
complex. The consulting company made the move after being in downtown
for 10 year in order to get closer to Tampa International Airport. Most of their employees commute to various sites throughout the US.
· Advance/Newhouse
Communications (Brighthouse Networks) has constructed a three-story,
166,000 sf headquarters location located with in the Carillon office park.
The building has a parking garage, warehouse space, and a staging area. The
building includes the company’s Pinellas county cable operations, the
high-speed online services group, the advertising sales group, division
offices and the local network Bay News 9.
· Raymond James
Expansion – Tower IV is the newest 300,000 SF building for the
financial organization campus. The campus has a total of 900,000 SF of
office space, two adjacent parking garages and employs approximately 3,000
employees.
· Located just east of
the intersection of 188th and 28th Avenue North is America
II with 154,000 SF facility and is one of the largest and most
preferred independent distributors of electronic components in North America.
· Home Shopping Network is expanding their
current 1.4 million SF facility. HSN acquired an additional 14 acres of
land to build a new three-story 172,000 SF office tower and an additional
100,000 SF office tower is in the future plans for development on the
property site.
· Synovus Bank of Tampa Bay has completed its 54,500
square foot office development, housing its new headquarters facility. The
development project actually consists of two buildings in two
phases. The offices are located along the south side of Roosevelt Boulevard, east of 28th Street North. Synovus of Tampa Bay was the name
given to the merger of United Bank & Trust Co. of St. Petersburg,
United Bank of the Gulf Coast and Peoples Bank in Palm Harbor.
· A 5,000-square-foot Suntrust
Bank with drive-thru is now open at 130 Main St. in the Carillon Town Center.
· Keiser Career College has a branch campus
on 11208 Danka Blvd. The branch campus offers Associate Degrees and
Diplomas in Medical Assisting, Pharmacy Technology, Surgical Technology and
Massage Therapy. www.keisercareer.edu
· Mercury Insurance, the leading
independent broker and agency writer of automobile insurance in California and one of the fastest growing automobile insurers in the nation, purchased The
Tides office tower in St. Petersburg. This purchase enabled their expansion
in the east coast of the United States, accommodating their relocation of
600 employees and their expansion of another 500 persons.
· The city was awarded
a grant by the State’s Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic
Development (OTTED) to reconstruct the intersection at 28th
Street and 118th Avenue North. The $1,075,000 road fund
grant will allow the city to expand 118th Avenue and add two new
lanes along with a new left-hand turn lane on 28th Street.
Construction on the intersection is underway.
· Verizon Information
Services, a unit of Verizon Communications, a Fortune 20 company,
signed a 60-month lease for almost 40,000 square feet in the Koger Center to house its local Verizon Super Pages sales divisions, which are currently
located in St. Petersburg and Tampa.
· Valpak, a national direct
marketing and printing company, has selected St. Petersburg for its new
corporate headquarters and production facility. The company has
relocated approximately 1,000 full-time employees and created 118 new,
full-time jobs in the city. Their new 500,000 SF facility has been
completed and is located with in the La Entrada Park. The facility won a
2007 NAIOP Award for Outstanding Industrial Building.
· Halkey Roberts has located their
national headquarters in a new completed facility located with in the La
Entrada Park. The 160,000 SF facility opened in October 2006.
Halkey-Roberts is a manufacturer of specialized precision vales used in
medical and military applications. They have been providing original
equipment manufacturers with innovative, cost efficient and quality
components for over twenty years from St. Petersburg.
· Medical Technology
Systems has moved to St. Petersburg. The move consolidated their
Pinellas county operations into one, 130,000-square-foot space at 2003 Gandy Boulevard.
· A new Holiday Inn
Express has been completed at 2151 54th Ave. N. The
47,000-square-foot hotel has 84 rooms.
· St. Anthony’s
Hospital has opened the 145,000-square-foot, $37-million Carillon
Outpatient Center in the Gateway area. The facility features a fitness
center, a cancer care center, immediate care for minor injuries, the Carillon Imaging Center, outpatient rehabilitation services, occupational health, MyHealth
preventive screenings, the BayCare Executive Health program, the BayCare
Outreach Laboratory and physician office space.
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Residential:
· Carlisle City Homes is a recent
development annexed into the city by the request from the developer. The
project calls for 45 three-story residences starting at $300,000.
· Grande Verandahs on
the Bay, an 84-unit luxury condominium project was the first new
high-rise project along the Gandy Blvd corridor. The complex was developed
by Ballast Point Group and completed in early 2006.
· Mangrove Cay is the latest
condominium project under development along Gandy Blvd corridor. Phase I is
under construction, a 13-story, 55-unit structure that has sold out. Phase
II is now accepting reservations.
· The Waterford
Apartments at 10263 Gandy Blvd. have been converted into condominiums, now
known as Itopia Private Residences. One- and two-bedroom floor plans
are available starting at $105,900 and $148,900 respectively. Amenities
include new kitchens, washers and dryers, two lakeside pools, clubhouse,
tennis courts, and fitness center. Visit: http://www.itopiacondos.com .
· Saxony Place
Townhomes at Carillon, is a luxury development consisting of 60 units,
which range from 3,719 square feet to 6,385 square feet. The units feature
two-car garages, granite countertops, hardwood cabinets and fireplaces.
· Back Bay at Carillon is the newest
residential community to be a part of the highly successful mixed-use
park. Currently under construction these 60 luxury townhome units are
designed to reflect the charm of an old Boston Brownstone with
today’s amenities. Units range from 2,900 to 3,700 square feet
and prices start from the high $500,000. www.backbayatcarillon.com
· Post Publishing Inc. has proposed a
multi-family development project at 11800 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street
North. The project contemplates the construction of a 108 new
residential units in St. Petersburg’s Gateway area.
· Terra Manor, a 171-unit townhome
development is under construction by D.R. Horton at 5150 Fourth St. N. The
development will include 50, two-story buildings with three units each, a
clubhouse and a recreational area.
· Fourth North Phase I of II has been
completed. The project is part of the Fourth North Retail project which
includes 171 unit townhomes. Phase II is currently under construction
directly behind the center.
· Venetian Bay is a new residential
community with 57 single-family attached homes initially priced from
$260,000 to $290,000 and ranging in size from 1,515 square feet to 1,858
square feet. Beazer developed this new community located off Gandy Boulevard.
· The Villas of
Carillon is a new townhome project located in the heart of the Carillon
Development District. The site contains 178 townhomes when complete. Phase
I and II are completed and sold out. Phase III is currently under
construction. Floor plans are all 3-bedroom units that range from 2,597
square feet to 2,745 square feet with prices starting at $300,000.
· Calais Park
Apartments was recently completed by Boulder Venture. The $25 million
development features 262 units and is located on 54th Avenue
North near I-275.
· The City of St. Petersburg has completed the Fossil Skate Park at 6635 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. St. N. It is more than 13,000 square feet and features a six-foot
high BMX mini ramp, three-foot high quarter pipes, four-foot high half
pipes, and various grind rails.
· Brighton Bay is a Centex Homes
neighborhood located at the northern end of the City. This
development has more than 1,000 units: 120 single-family homes ($159,000 to
$245,000), 150 townhomes ($124,000 to $140,000) and 780 apartments ($700 to
$1,300).
· The Bay Isle Key
apartment complex was sold to a developer who has converted the 582
apartment units into condominiums. Prices for the condominiums will
start at $150,000. www.bayislekeycondos.com
· A new BMX track
at 28th Street North and 102nd Avenue will be
constructed to take the place of the existing track located at Walter Fuller Park in the Tyrone area. The new park will be constructed on a 10 acre
site and managed by the Pinellas NBI (National Bike League) Parents
Council.
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