[Popman]

Living in Tampa and am familiar with the ongoing battles over the design and development of "The Pier", this is a boondoggle of massive proportion...

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.

[Charles Martel]

They need to make the whole pier a retail and restaurant enclosed facility...

Agreed. The St. Pete planners should take a look at the Toronto waterfront area for some ideas. Different weather challenges up there, but similar solutions.

[Ben Ficklin]

25 years ago I lived on a boat in the Marina next to the pier, for a couple of winter months.

The Pier was an overpriced tourist trap.