Million Dollar Pier St Petersburg Florida

Million Dollar Pier St Petersburg Florida

• Aerial View City St Petersburg Florida
• extends into Tampa Bay from downtown St. Petersburg
• first pier structure on the site was built in 1889,
• new piers were constructed over the course of the next 30 years
• beginning as a railroad trestle 
• beginning as a railroad trestle 
•  “Million Dollar” pier with construction completed in 1926
• In 1973 the Inverted Pyramid structure was completed and opened to the public
• In 1987, the Pier was transformed once again with the addition of nearly 70,000 square feet of “festival market” style retail space