What is the Million Dollar Pier?

25 Nov 1926. The “Million Dollar Pier” which extends into Tampa Bay from downtown St. Petersburg was dedicated on this date. The first pier structure on the site was built in 1889, and due to its popularity as a tourist destination, new piers were constructed over the course of the next 30 years.



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The Million Dollar Pier was built in the Mediterranean Revival style. Created by architect Addison Mizner in the 1920s, Mediterranean Revival style architecture was meant to evoke the romance of the Mediterranean, thereby encouraging Americans to vacation domestically, rather than traveling abroad.

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The 26-acre Pier District redevelopment project cost $92 million in total. Architects of the new pier said the finished experience is a spectacle on the water, where the city meets the bay.

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The most recent structure, the third owned by the city, was a five-story inverted pyramid-shaped building, designed by St. Petersburg architect William B. Harvard, Sr. That Inverted Pyramid Pier was closed in 2013, and the new 26-acre Pier District opened on July 6, 2020.

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Million Dollar Pier (1906–1981) Million Dollar Pier was built by Captain John L. Young in partnership with Kennedy Crossan a builder from Philadelphia. Young was an experienced showman who in 1891 had begun operating Young's Ocean Pier in Atlantic City (on the site where Central Pier was later located).

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Echelman says part of the experience in viewing her art is watching the net sculpture as it changes while it sways in the wind and light. The cost of the art was $1.5 million, which was partially raised by private donors. The infrastructure to hold the net artwork costs another $1.3 million.

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One of the most beautiful streets in St. Petersburg, and one of the busiest both day and night, Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt is the central thoroughfare of the Petrograd Side, linking the centre of the city with its northwestern boroughs.

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A: St. Petersburg is one of the cheaper metro areas to live in Florida with a cost of living only 0.4 percent above the nation's average. By comparison, Miami's cost of living is 22.4 percent higher than the national average.

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