Watching St. Petersburg Blossom into the Gulf's Leading Gay Resort

I spent a couple of weeks this spring touring around southern and central Florida, from Miami and Fort Lauderdale up to Orlando and Tampa Bay. Of all the cities in which I spent time, none has changed more for the better since my last visit than St. Petersburg, the state's fourth largest city. Granted, I hadn't been through St. Petersburg and its string of beach communities for nearly a decade, but during that visit, much of the region looked badly in need of a makeover. What's happened in St. Petersburg lately, and an influx of GLBT residents has played a vital role in this transformation, is that downtown has developed into a considerably more vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood with increasing numbers of hip restaurants and shops to match its already stellar crop of museums (one of those key attractions, the Salvador Dali Museum, will be reopening along the downtown waterfront in a spectacular new home on January 11)....Read Full Post

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