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Downtown St. Petersburg Florida

I spent Thanksgiving there. St. Petersburg's downtown blows the doors off of Tampa's, but beyond downtown it had the same problem that Tampa has: anemic neighborhoods. Just like Ybor City in Tampa was a colossal disappointment, St. Petersburg's "Grand Central" arts district/gayborhood was pitiful.

Since St P has 2.3m people, why it is not famous? I thought it has 230 thousand people at most. small city.

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Originally Posted by Murphy de la Sucre (Post 8012412)

Since St P has 2.3m people, why it is not famous? I thought it has 230 thousand people at most. small city.

Sorry if you got confused, what I posted was "Tampa Bay region with a population of about 2.8 million". St. Petersburg is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan area which now has about 3 million in the metro. The main downtown's in that metro is St. Petersburg, Tampa and Clearwater. The population of the 3 main cities in the metro are - Tampa (335,709), St Petersburg (257,083) and Clearwater (107,685). The City of St. Petersburg is currently the home of the Tampa Bay Rays Major League Baseball Team and the Tampa Bay Rowdies minor league soccer team.

Why is it not famous?
I am not sure what you mean by famous. The Tampa Bay region is well know in North America and is famous for having some of the best ranked beaches in the US, has two international airports, is home to Busch Gardens Theme Park and the University of South Florida with about 50,000 students.

Tampa Bay is about 1 hour from Orlando (Metro Population of about 2.3 million). In between the two metros is another metro called Lakeland with about another (700,000). These 3 areas draw about 80 million tourist a year for the beaches, tourist attractions and all the theme parks and water parks. (Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, Sea World, Legoland and Busch Gardens)

I guess the 80 million tourist would make the region fairly famous. With a total population between the 3 metros of about 6 million people.

Hope that helps.

Nice, even with the unusually grey weather for the sunshine state. A rare city to see, have seen a bit of Tampa in the forum but not St Pete.

thanks, looks great! St. Pete also home to the Salvador Dali Museum-- http://thedali.org/

My best friend lives in St. Pete. It's my favorite city in Florida and has a surprisingly charming and active downtown. The Locale market is fantastic too and rivals nearly anything we have here in NYC.

I gotta say, downtown looks quite nice. I will check it out someday.

:cheers::cheers::cheers:

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Originally Posted by gothamite (Post 8013817)

thanks, looks great! St. Pete also home to the Salvador Dali Museum-- http://thedali.org/

We visited the Dali Museum when we visited Tampa - St. Petersburg a few years ago and the museum was very impressive. We also got breakfast at the Banyan Cafe, which was quite good.

The first photo reminds me of Gold Coast Australia,

nice to see this area again. my memories as a small child were of my grandparents always stopping along palm tree lined boulevard medians in st petes to fill up on spring water from taps. also someplace where they built one mall right across the street from another one and that puzzled me. :haha:

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Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist (Post 8696936)

We visited the Dali Museum when we visited Tampa - St. Petersburg a few years ago and the museum was very impressive. We also got breakfast at the Banyan Cafe, which was quite good.

i visited that dali museum way back when it was in cleveland, before it jumped ship for tampa/st petes. :shrug: