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Pier Park mastermind Rob Rogers to speak at Sunken Gardens Thursday

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St. Pete residents will have a chance to get up close and personal with lead designers of Pier Park this Thursday evening. Rogers Partners Architects and Urban Designers principal architect Rob Rogers will speak at Sunken Gardens 7-9 p.m. to showcase his broad portfolio of previous work and lay out how urban design can flourish in St. Pete’s downtown community. “Rob creates institutional and cultural buildings that are civic works. Believing that even a single building is a piece of urban…

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Close that door! Karl Nurse asks for help dealing with downtown St. Pete noise complaints

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If you run a noisy bar downtown, prepare to start closing your doors after midnight – 11 if it’s a weeknight. Literally closing the door, not closing in general. Sound absurd? It’s not, really. In an effort to deal with burdensome and frequent noise complaints in the burgeoning downtown St. Pete nightlife scene, City Council member Karl Nurse is asking his colleagues to collaborate on a plan. The board voted unanimously, with Wengay Newton abstaining due to an absence, to…

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Cafe Adagio, looking to become third bikini bar in downtown, now hiring

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A third bikini bar in downtown St. Petersburg? “And by June, the owner of Cafe Adagio at 1111 Central Ave. plans to open three stages — complete with requisite brass poles — so that, it too, can have barely dressed women dancing about.” And, just in case you don’t keep tabs on which clubs and restaurants are hiring, I noticed this ad on Craig’s List: Newly renovated club Adagio in the hart of St. Petersburg is looking for the experienced…

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Join St. Pete Preservation for a walking tour of downtown

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The downtown walking tour includes a history of early St. Pete, a chance to see some of the best of the buildings from the 1920s boom and an opportunity to learn about some of the architectural styles represented in the city. This month’s tour will take a special insider look at the 1920s boom era Princess Martha Hotel, now fully restored and offering beautiful apartments for 55+ active adults.

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Anyone foolish enough to think the Rays can’t leave the Tampa Bay market (especially if Kathleen Ford is elected)…

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…need to read about the ongoing legal battle between the NHL and Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie’s effort to move the Phoenix Coyotes. Balsillie offered the city of Glendale $50 million to drop its objections to the transfer of the franchise, an offer that city is evaluating. Imagine four years from now, when the Rays, frustrated by Kathleen Ford’s efforts to prevent the baseball team from building a new stadium, are wooed by out-of-town interests, such as Las Vegas’ Steve Wynn,…

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Parking meter assaulted in St. Pete!

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On my way to visit the effervescent Marissa, the hostess at Z-Grille, my friend and I stumbled upon the first victim in the coming revolt against the new parking rules in downtown St. Petersburg. The victim was found unconscious on the sidewalk, its assailants unknown, although the usual suspects have already been detained.

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Save BayWalk

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News is breaking this evening that two days after he took over BayWalk, interim property manager Howard Rosenthal was arrested Thursday by Pinellas Sheriff’s detectives accused of stealing almost $171,000 from his former company, Colliers Arnold of Clearwater. This is yet another black eye on one of the most important parts of downtown St. Pete. I could make the argument that it was the development of Baywalk, more than any other effort, that has led to the revitalization of downtown…

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