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Pier Selection Committee sets a date for final Pier ranking

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The Pier Selection Committee will meet Thursday April 23 at 2 p.m. to discuss and rank the final three pier designs. The meeting will be held at City Hall in City Council chambers. The meeting follows a previous one earlier this month in which members of the committee failed to agree to a final ranking of three remaining designs — Alma, Destination St. Pete Pier and Pier Park despite 12 hours of debate and public comment. By the end of…

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There’s a third design in the Pier debate no one seems to be talking about – meet Pier Park

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Through all of the debate surrounding the Pier, there’s one team missing from the conversation. “We received the most first-place votes by the selection committee,” said Ken Cowart, the local architect for ASD Architects, the team behind the design Pier Park. During its 12-hour meeting on March 20, the Pier Selection Committee took a straw vote of four designs – the Pier Park, Alma, Destination St. Pete Pier and Prospect Pier. While that straw vote didn’t put Pier Park in…

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St. Pete City Council will not be voting on a revised Rays deal until after a workshop

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St. Pete City Council will not be voting on a revised Rays deal anytime soon. City Council Chair Charlie Gerdes said instead he’s going to move forward with a request to workshop possible problems still lingering on the mind of five council members who voted no last December on Mayor Rick Kriseman’s original deal. “The mayor had some conversations with some of my colleagues and there’s just not a high enough confidence level that two of them will change their…

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Concerned Citizens says Pier process is off track

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When the Lens design for a new Pier was soundly defeated in 2013 it was largely because of the efforts of one group pushing to kill it. That group, Concerned Citizens, had announced its support of Mayor Rick Kriseman’s new Pier selection process. Today, they are removing that support. Sort of. The group wrote in a release that they support Kriseman’s vision for a process because it would “rely heavily on public input.” The board-approved statement calls that process “off…

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Rick Kriseman sends new Rays deal to City Council

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St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman has provided City Council an updated Memorandum of Understanding with the Tampa Bay Rays that meant to allow the team to explore new stadium opportunities in Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. The new agreement addresses a concern brought up in the December meeting last year in which council rejected 5-3 the Mayor’s previous MOU. Council member Karl Nurse pointed out that should the Rays decide to leave Tropicana Field and/or St. Pete, they would still be…

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An open letter to anyone who expects a certain kind of reporting about the Pier

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Dear Pier lovers, haters and obfuscators, Earlier this week I wrote about what City Council can and cannot do about whatever final ranking is put before them by the Pier Selection Committee. I quoted a letter sent by Bill Ballard, who headed the group behind the Lens coup in 2013 to members of the Pier Selection Committee, Mayor Rick Kriseman and the St. Pete City Council. I pointed out that in his letter Ballard said City Council could not only…

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Another bump in the road for the Pier process

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A petition is circulating on change.org in support of one of the pier designs eliminated last week by the Pier Selection Committee. St. Pete resident Ryan Mitchell launched the petition Friday in support of Blue Pier. “We believe that since Blue Pier requires the lowest subsidy, it positions itself as a leading design amongst the finalists,” the petition reads. “We believe that Blue Pier will succeed because it doesn’t waste usable, activated space with traffic lanes and parking spaces such…

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