January 22, 2025

Fitness retailer Fit2Run to open new store in Tyrone Square Mall in west St. Pete

January 22, 2025/ Veronica Brezina

Fit2Run is expanding with plans to open a new athletic apparel store in St. Petersburg.

Fit2Run, a family-owned Bradenton-based business selling footwear and apparel for runners, will open a new store in February at Tyrone Square Mall at 6901 22nd Avenue North.

The store will open in space 840A, replacing the Furniture Distribution Center store, which has relocated in the mall.

The announcement of the second store comes a year after the fitness retailer announced it is opening a store at the ground floor of the Camden Central apartment complex, located at 855 Central Avenue.

January 21, 2025

46-story 400 Central condo tower tops out in downtown St. Pete

January 21, 2025/ Veronica Brezina

Topping out at 515 feet tall, the roof of the 46-story Residences at 400 Central condominium tower has been poured — marking the completion of vertical construction for the tallest residential building on Florida's Gulf Coast.

New York billionaire John Catsimatidis Sr., founder of development company Red Apple Group, alongside select media members, met at the site on Saturday morning for an exclusive view from atop the tower being constructed at 400 Central Avenue in downtown St. Pete.

Crews from Suffolk Construction are actively building out the Sky Lounge and Observatory on the 46th floor of the tower, which Catsimatidis Sr. refers to as the “Empire State Building of St. Pete.”

January 16, 2025

33-story apartment tower 3rd & 3rd to begin vertical construction in downtown St. Pete

January 16, 2025/ Veronica Brezina

Vertical construction is imminent at downtown St. Pete’s next high-rise tower.

Next week, crews from KAST Construction will start pouring the foundation for 3rd & 3rd, a 33-story 262-unit apartment tower currently under construction in downtown St. Pete.

It’ll be one of the largest foundation pours ever completed in the city.

The main core mat foundation pour, consisting of 4,000 cubic yards of concrete, will commence on Friday January 24th at 8:00 p.m. and last between 12 to 14 hours.

The team estimates that roughly 380 to 420 concrete trucks will make their way through the project site located at 235 3rd Street South on the northwest corner of 3rd Avenue South and 3rd Street directly across from the Publix-anchored University Village shopping center.

January 08, 2025

St. Pete Ferments and Queen & Colony relocate to new home near downtown

January 08, 2025/ Veronica Brezina

The longtime farmer's market vendor who's garnered a name for herself making kombucha and fermented vegetables in St. Pete has found a new permanent home.

Jars of raw honey, bottles of kombucha with fruity flavors, and fermented kimchi and sauerkraut fill the shelves and cooler along the brick walls and cooler inside St. Pete Ferments' new brick-and-mortar shop at 326 MLK Jr. Street North, a space with Queen and Colony Bee Company, which specializes in local, raw honey and beekeeper education.

The two businesses previously shared a space at an industrial building 4922 8th Avenue South in Gulfport.

January 02, 2025

Juicy Brewing to take over the former Avid Brew Company space in the Grand Central District

January 02, 2025/ Veronica Brezina

Juicy Brewing, a popular craft brewery in the Washington DC suburb of Herndon, Virginia, is set to open its second location in the Grand Central District of St. Pete.

Hoping to open in February, the brewery will occupy a 3,600-square-foot building formerly home to Avid Brew Company at 1745 1st Avenue South.

“We are so excited to be part of the St. Pete community,” said K Scarry, who owns the St. Pete location with her husband Jake Killian, Joshua Newlon, and the founder of Juicy Brewing Anton Sagan.

Since debuting three years ago, Juicy Brewing has become known for its hazy IPAs and fruit-forward sours.