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It was the first major hotel in St. Petersburg to be situated along the waterfront and represents the transition from small scale, mainly frame boarding houses and hotels built before the World War I era to the large, masonry hotels built in the boom years of 1921–26. Hotels built in St. Petersburg before 1920 were small, usually less than 50 ...
The Selmon Extension as it towers over the intersection of Gandy Blvd and WestShore Blvd. Officially known as just the Selmon West Extension, the project is a two-lane elevated viaduct over the median of Gandy Blvd in order to provide commuters a signal-free drive from the Brandon terminus all the way to the Gandy Bridge. Plans for the project ...
US 92 west (Gandy Boulevard / SR 600) – St. Petersburg: North end of SR 573; south end of US 92 / SR 600 overlap: 2.01: 3.23: SR 618 east (Selmon Expressway) to I-75 – Brandon, Downtown Tampa: SR 618 exit 1; no access from Dale Mabry south to SR 618 east: 4.609: 7.417: SR 685 north (Henderson Boulevard) No left turn southbound: 5.363: 8.631
Within downtown St. Petersburg, US 19 crosses US 19 Alt., which used to serve as the southern terminus of US 19 Alt. until 2006. US 19 runs along 34th Street until just south of the interchange at SR 694 at Gandy and Park boulevards in Pinellas Park. This interchange was intended for the formerly proposed Gandy Freeway.
A 1942 map shows US 92 extended west along SR 17 and SR 229 to end at US 19 in Dunedin; it was soon truncated back to Tampa. In the 1945 renumbering, the whole route of US 92 was numbered SR 600, except for the section south to downtown Tampa, which was SR 45. It was extended west and south to downtown St. Petersburg along SR 600 and SR 687 in ...
However, some in the Gandy community continue to rally against this plan. In 2008, the FDOT improved Gandy Blvd itself by raising the median, limiting/modifying turn points/lanes, and upgrading traffic signals. A component connector to the Gandy proposal was rumored to connect the failed Gandy extension to Interstate 375 in St. Pete.
State Road 686 (SR 686) is an east–west route in Pinellas County, running from U.S. Route 19 Alternate (Alt. US 19) in Largo east to an intersection with SR 687 (4th Street) and SR 694 (Gandy Boulevard) in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Gateway/Mid-County Planning area falls within the city limits of St. Petersburg and Pinellas Park, along U.S. Route 92 and Interstate 275 at the west end of the Howard Frankland Bridge. It is bordered by: [3] U.S. Route 19 and Starkey Road on the west; 62nd Avenue North and Gandy Boulevard on the south; Tampa Bay on the north and east