ST. PETE WAREHOUSE
ARTS DISTRICT
ST. PETERSBURG, FL
1.6MM+
SF DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
853
PLANNED RESIDENCES
2024
TEC OVERLAY ADOPTED
7.5
ACRE ASSEMBLAGE
A DISTRICT’S MISSING CONNECTIVE TISSUE
The Warehouse Arts District sits between three of St. Petersburg's most active neighborhoods: Grand Central, the Deuces Live corridor, and downtown, and for decades connected none of them. Zoned for industrial use only, the land surrounding the long‑removed rail line stayed vacant or underused even as the city grew around it.
Place Projects assembled 7.5 acres along 22nd Street South in 2019, adjacent to 3 Daughters Brewing and the 1926 Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Station, and then spent four years on the zoning rather than the buildings. The firm authored and advocated for an industrial mixed‑use framework — I‑MIX — built on the premise that new residential and commercial density should reinforce the district's working arts economy rather than displace it. In September 2024, the City Council unanimously adopted the SunRunner Target Employment Center overlay, applying that framework across 58 acres.
A vision plan completed in 2025 with Lake|Flato sets the physical terms: more than 1.6 million square feet of mixed‑use development across four parcels, organized around the Pinellas Trail, a new trail park and a pedestrian spine that ties 22nd Street back to the neighborhoods on either side of it.
OUR ROLE
Master Developer and Owner, Land Assembly, Zoning Framework, District Planning and Entitlement Strategy
VISION PLAN
FOUR PARCELS, ONE DISTRICT
PARCEL 1 | RESIDENTIAL + HOTEL
242 residences and a 123‑key hotel above ground‑floor food, beverage and retail. The parcel fronts the Pinellas Trail and the district's primary open space, with a hotel courtyard opening directly onto the trail.
PARCEL 2 | RESIDENTIAL + ANCHOR PROGRAM
297 residences over an anchor commercial program — food hall, brewery expansion, market or a combination — sized to pull the district's daily activity onto 22nd Street South.
PARCEL 3 | RESIDENTIAL + MAKER FRONTAGE
314 residences with roughly 34,000 square feet of ground‑floor retail and maker space along the secondary pedestrian spine, holding the light‑industrial floor area the overlay requires.
PARCEL 4 | HISTORIC SEABOARD B
The 1926 freight station — a designated local landmark, closed as a rail facility in 1967 and renovated beginning in 2000 — anchors the trail edge of the district and remains home to the Morean Center for Clay.
IN THE DISTRICT
