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City Council hears from first commenters during crucial St. Pete Pier meeting

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St. Pete City Council has heard from a handful of speakers regarding a new Pier. During open forum some people spoke directly in favor of a design while others addressed the process as a whole. Council is expected to hear a report from the Pier Selection Committee regarding its final ranking of Pier Park as the top pick followed by Destination St. Pete Pier and Alma. At that time the public will have a chance to weigh in again. Those…

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Poll shows public support for Pier Park over Destination St. Pete

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According to the latest poll conducted between Monday and Wednesday, Pier Park is sitting pretty when it comes to voter approval. Nearly 47 percent of respondents indicated they preferred Pier Park over Destination St. Pete Pier while just 38 percent favored Destination. The results roll in just hours before City Council is set to meet to determine whether or not to give Mayor Rick Kriseman the greenlight on beginning negotiations with the Pier Park design team. That design was ranked…

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Pier Park criticism is reminiscent of 2013 Lens saga

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Supporters of Destination St. Pete Pier are gearing up for a fight Thursday as the City Council prepares to approve another design, Pier Park, instead of their favorite. Last month, the Pier Selection Committee ranked Destination St. Pete Pier behind Pier Park in its final ranking, even though a series of public surveys showed broad support for Destination. Since that vote, frustration has spiraled into outrage with a flurry of attacks on both the Pier Park design and the city’s…

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Community activist Aaron Sharpe to challenge Lisa Wheeler-Brown for St. Pete District 7

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The race to replace St. Pete’s District 7 City Councilman Wengay Newton just got its second candidate. Financial businessman and longtime community activist Aaron Sharpe has jumped into the ring to challenge the popular and well-endorsed Lisa Wheeler-Brown. Sharpe is the current founder and president of a new nonprofit called Volunteer Society of America and currently runs his own consulting firm, Sharpe Companies. He worked previously in various management positions with Fifth Third Bank. Sharpe is also the chair of…

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Bill Ballard letter to City Council lays out argument for Destination St. Pete Pier

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Bill Ballard, an outspoken advocate for saving St. Pete’s iconic inverted pyramid, has sent another letter to St. Pete City Council urging them to vote down the final ranking of three concepts for a new Pier. In the letter obtained by SaintPetersblog Ballard seeks to lay out the “subversion of the selection process” and includes a variety of videos containing statements supporting his claim. In one of them, three committee members, Mike Meidel, Melanie Lenz and Gary Mitchum, all say the…

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Rick Kriseman is censoring Pier comments on his official Facebook page

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The Pier has been a passionate source of debate in St. Pete for years. Since 2005, when money was first earmarked for renovations to the inverted pyramid, the voice surrounding the Pier’s future has only grown louder. In 2013, the Pier seemed poised to get a facelift – removing the decades-old inverted pyramid and replacing it with a modern pedestrian and bike loop over the water called the Lens. But those diehard inverted pyramid fans rallied and the Lens was…

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Wengay Newton will ask City Council to hold special election for new St. Pete Pier

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St. Pete City Council member Wengay Newton has long been a proponent of saving the city’s iconic inverted pyramid. He was a vocal critic of the Lens and supported former mayoral candidate Kathleen Ford’s petition effort to save the current Pier as well as the successful petition drive by Concerned Citizens that led to the ultimate undoing of the Lens. Now he’s supporting the only design out of the Pier Selection Committee’s top three picks that reuses and renovates the…

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