Money quotes:
"The new US$46 million project is a collaboration between Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers, ASD and Ken Smith Landscape Architect."
"Transport links will include the St. Petersburg trolley and a potential high-speed ferry. The Pier-Park is expected to open to the public in early 2018. Source: Rogers Partners, Pier Park"
Perhaps I’m too easily amused, but I do get amused watching people and the media squeeze popular words into titles and phrases seeking to instill heightened interest.
Hybrid is the popular word these days.
About three to five years ago it was Tuscany or Tuscan. Everything was Tuscan this or that. Landscapers, interior designers, builders... it was laughable.
Too bad - the inverted pyramid had the feel of a fire trap... elevators running through restaurant kitchens etc.
The proximity to the north end of the Saint Petersburg airport accentuates the pier's recreational value. Aren't all the best parks at the end of a runway? Public funds, private profits, suitability be dam@#d. I hope no one lost property via eminent domain.
The little city that wants to be a big city.
They are getting a Hauffbrau House too. Nothing else even matters!
If you are going to blow a bunch of tax payer money, just build a high speed rail across the bay... / S
They need to make the whole pier a retail and restaurant enclosed facility...
Nobody is going to want to visit "The Pier" in the middle of summer and darn near pass out from heat stroke.
The eyesore of the inverted inverted pyramid needs to be torn down.