Designers and builders are closing in on a happy ending to the city of St. Petersburg’s long-running saga to replace its former pier—known best for its inverted pyramid building—with something much more functionally useful.
Now, nearly 15 years since the project was first budgeted, more than 10 years after the launch of an ill-fated international design competition and roughly seven years since the city closed the old facility, contractors are just months away from completing the dramatically different replacement.