Pineapple Espresso; owned and operated by St. Pete natives – aims to elevate the coffee and food experience!
This small batch coffee roaster will not only be serving the community with their delicious coffee, but also providing some of the freshest & healthiest food options that St. Pete has ever seen from a drive thru! Being busy shouldn’t mean your health has to be compromised, or your choices have to be limited! They’re already serving some amazing options that customers can’t get enough of; like the Everything Toast with their 6 minute eggs and the Sunshine Ricotta Caprese Toast – but are introducing new menu items each week! Additionally, Pineapple Espresso is staying true to its roots by partnering with other wonderful locally owned small businesses like the fast growing Made Coffee for quick grab n’ go drinks and nitro brews, as well as Gulf Coast Sour Dough and Fat Beet Farm – to make sure they offer the freshest and highest quality ingredients! With their eco-friendly cups/food containers & lids that don’t require those paper straws that fall apart; Pineapple Espresso has already left its mark on St. Pete, without leaving its mark on the environment!
Make sure you check out their Facebook and Instagram to stay updated on all the new menu items and their patio expansion!
Congratulations to our wonderful repeat client Maria; on the sale of her beautiful St. Pete waterfront home! This stunning 3 bedroom, 2 bath, renovated property in the Shore Acres neighborhood went under contract prior to going in the MLS! Contact us today if you’re looking to sell your current home, or looking for your next dream home!
Every year since 1995, some of the biggest names in blues music have taken the stage at the Tampa Bay Blues Festival in St. Petersburg. Join the fun this year at the waterfront Vinoy Park for three days of world class blues music! Tickets and VIP packages can be purchased at tampabaybluesfest.com.
Tampa Bay Blues Festival w/Boz Scaggs/Jonny Lang/more. April 12-14. $35 & up. Vinoy Park, 701 Bay Shore Dr. NE, St. Petersburg. tampabaybluesfest.com.
Friday, April 12 Jonny Lang Samantha Fish Curtis Salgado J.T. Lauritsen and the Buckshot Hunters Spoonful of Blues
Saturday, April 13 Boz Scaggs California Honeydrops Welch Ledbetter Connection Mr. Sipp Vanessa Collier Blackburn Brothers
Sunday, April 14Tab Benoit Kenny Neal C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band Mike Zito Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys
Information Courtesy of Creative Loafing and Tampabaybluesfest.com
St. Pete Indie Market is a monthly market, featuring 100+ vendors. The market showcases local artists, indie designers, vintage collectors, food trucks, jewelry makers, horticulturists, eclectic crafters and other local businesses and organizations. The market spills out of Green Bench Brewing Co. with specialty cocktails being served up at Intermezzo Coffee & Cocktails. Get a taste of St. Pete’s local vibe and eat, shop and drink the first Saturday of each month from 12 – 4 p.m.
Come join us this Saturday in the sought after Oakleaf Hammock neighborhood for open houses at these stunning homes! We will be opening both homes from 1pm-4pm on Saturday, March 30th! Come see this private gated community and all it has to offer!
The St Petersburg Saturday Morning Market is open from 9am – 2pm
Mission — The mission of the market is to be the ‘heart’ of St. Petersburg — the place, more than anywhere else, that people feel a strong sense of joyful connectedness and creative community.
While actual farmers, great food, interesting crafts and lively music are all wonderful elements of the market, this spirit of community is what really defines the market experience.
Many customers have shared that they think that the market is the most significant improvement to quality of life ever in St Petersburg.
The Basics — The market first opened in November 2002
The market runs every Saturday from 9–2pm in downtown St Petersburg
The market is located in the Al Lang Field parking lot (the corner of 1st Street and 1st Avene S)
We’re open from early October–late May each year. This reflects the optimum weather period and the mid-Florida growing season.
Our smaller Summer Market changes venues for shade. It takes place in Williams Park from June to August … 9am–1pm
Click here to see our assorted Facebook photo albums including an overview of the Market
Market Management — The market is a non-profit (501c3) organization, actively managed by the Sterieng Committee (Mark Johnson, Gail Eggeman, & Carol Ringed).
The market is not sponsored by an outside organization (e.g. the city, a merchants association, etc).
A Top Market — We’re one of the top 20 markets in the country (of ~7000+), and the largest in the southeast US. (This assessment is based on our personally visiting over 150 markets, including most of the major ones).
We have about 170 approved vendors filling over 130 spaces.
About 10,000 people attend on a typical Saturday.
A Top Food & Eating Experience — We have broad array of gourmet ‘ready-to-eat’ and ‘take-home’ food.
We have more nationalities or styles (15+) of ‘ready-to-eat’ food than any market in the US (e.g. Greek, Italian, French, Belgian, German, Polish, British, Cuban, Mexican, Ecuadoran, Colombian, Thai, Ethiopian, Cajun, Vegetarian, and more).
We have a great variety of artisan food vendors. (e.g. fresh seafood, baked goods, pastries, jams, chocolates, cheeses, salsas, chutneys, sauces, imported truffles, pickles, popsicles, spices, jerky etc.).
The Creative Loafing Food Editor declared that the Market was one of the 5 most significant food-related developments in the Tampa Bay area in the entire 2000-2010 decade.
Business Development — Product sales on a typical Saturday are estimated to be $120,000.
Over 25 vendors have used the Market to springboard into permanent retail locations. Others are thrilled by the high sales and low overhead associated with Market vending.
We provide a great deal of direct coaching to vendors about many aspects of vending. They report that this is a unique and very valuable aspect of the St Pete Market.
We designed a detailed self-assessment model that outlines what ‘poor’, ‘good’ and ‘great’ looks like in 6 categories. It enables vendors to identify their best opportunities to make improvements.
We’re extremely selective with new vendor applicants, and have declined over 1000 in our history.
The Market has sponsored a community kitchen to provide fledgling food vendors access to a kitchen that enables them to meet regulatory requirements.
Surrounding retail stores in the downtown area (and up 4th St) report that the Market has a significant positive impact on their Saturday business.
An Extraordinary Social Experience — It’s widely recognized as the local town square, and the definitive community experience in St Petersburg.
Live music in the center of the Market plays a key part of the lively market experience.
Our intention is that visitors are regularly surprised and delighted. One way this occurs is our broad variety of performers/ buskers (e.g. balloon artist, accordionist, magician, chalk artist , living statue, etc.).
We have 3x as much seating space as any major US market, with over 25 tables and 150 chairs.
People often plan to eat and hangout at the market, spending about 60-90 minutes, which they know means that it’s very likely that they will run into friends (both expected and unexpected ones).
Our vendors represent a wide variety of ethnicities and nationalities, contributing to a rich multicultural experience of food, crafts and music.
Our customers reflect a wide demographic, ethnic and age ranges. This means you’ll see strollers, dreadlocks, canes, high heels, tattoos, balloon hats, bicycling clothes, purple hair & Bermuda shorts.
Our observation is that the friendliness and ‘vibe’ in our Market is in a class by itself. One indicator of friendliness is the extent that strangers freely talk to one another.
Farmer Development — Running a market in Florida is challenging as Florida is dominated by agri-businesses and has a low proportion of small farmers.
Our customers are able to buy high quality produce and other products directly from local growers.
Worden Farm, an organic farm in Punta Gorda (100 miles south) is a huge market favorite.
We are a primary source of sales for many of our small farmers.
We support farmers by offering reduced market fees, and scholarships to the Florida Local Food Summit.
We personally inspect the farms to insure that they grow what they sell.
We work closely with local agricultural agents to identify and support start-up farmers.
Community Support — We provide significant community visibility to a broad variety of non-profit organizations.
We’ve given over 500 free booth spaces (including a free tent and table) to non-profits including
Healthcare
Human Services
Cultural Arts
Education
The Bloodmobile has collected over 500 units of blood in their monthly visits.
We provide a performance venue for many community groups to promote their programs (including the St Petersburg Opera, the Arts Magnet schools, youth development, ethnic dance programs, and many others).
Health & Sustainability — We promote healthy eating and positive environmental practices in many ways.
The Market provides an EBT service, enabling low income visitors to buy quality food and produce with their benefits. We also provide a ‘double dollars’ service through a charitable grant.
We’ve purchased a large scale solar composting station to recycle garbage into high quality soil.
We’ve created a food demonstration cart to enable demos by chefs about healthy and creative cooking.
We specifically select food vendors for their nutritional value (e.g. we have no deep fried foods).
A Visitor Destination — Local residents report that it’s a favorite place to take their out-of-town visitors.
We’re a highly rated destination on TripAdvisor & Yelp with an average rating of about 4.5. On TripAdvisor, we’re the #1 shopping location in St Petersburg and earned a coveted ‘Certificate of Excellence’.
Bay area residents regularly attend from over 40+ miles away (e.g. Lakeland, New Port Richey and Venice).
Award Winning — We regularly win awards and get positive editorial acknowledgements.
We regularly win Creative Loafing’s annual Readers Choice award as the best local Farmers Market.
We won the award as St Petersburg’s ‘Best Hotspot and Hangout’ in a contest by the St Pete Chamber.
We’ve won the Downtown Neighborhood Association’s Sunshine Award as the best ‘Event’ in the downtown area for 2 years that the contest has been run.
2 new stunning homes in the sought after neighborhoods of Barcley Estates and Historic Kenwood! Click the links below for more information on each property or just stop by at the times listed above!
Been interested in living in Riviera Bay? Well nows your chance to see SEVEN of the amazing listings in this sought after neighborhood, at one time! The Price Group is teaming up with two other brokerages to hold open houseson all of these stunning homes from 11am-1pm, Saturday March 16th…….So come out to any of the listings above, take a tour, enjoy the waterfront, grab a flyer and head to the next one! We are very excited to be able to open all of these properties at the same time for you tomorrow and can’t wait for you to find your dream home!
There will be a need for speed in downtown St. Petersburg this weekend. The annual Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg is here, with events starting Friday and qualifying races starting Saturday. The main event will be on Sunday.
For non-racers, it may be a pain to try to navigate through traffic with the temporary street closures, and the event is also occurring during Florida’s spring break season. City officials said the following downtown streets will be closed or have limited access to traffic during race weekend:
Other events going on include the Grand Prix Movie in the Park. This year, Herbie Fully Loaded will be playing in North Straub Park on Friday. The film starts at dark, and the public event is free. A kids’ arts and craft station opens at 5:30 p.m.
Four bedroom, three bath, pool home in prestigious Barcley Estates sits on an oversized pie shape lot. The home comes with a fully updated kitchen with new fridge and dishwasher, salwater pool with spillover spa (separate gas spa heater), new roof in 2018, new front windows, repaved drivwar, new garage door and door motor, bluetooth speaker in master bath light fixtures in 2019, new interior fans and a shuffleboard court behind the home. One of the larger lots in this well maintained neighborhood of Barcley Estates; this home offers all of the upgrades you are looking for with extra privacy! Great location, easy access to 275 and approximately 15 minutes to South Tampa, airport and downtown St. Pete. The homeowners association fee is optional and $25/year! It covers a great block party in November, and luminaries in December. **Exterior Photos Coming Soon (Weather)**
To schedule a private tour before this property hits the market contact David Price | 727-458-4537
