St. Petersburg: Historic hotel will reawaken

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By SHARON L. BOND, Times Staff Writer

Published May 4, 2005

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ST. PETERSBURG - After years in limbo, the historic Pennsylvania Hotel is slated to become a Marriott Courtyard hotel, complete with a new additional seven-story building.

The 128-room Marriott will have a restaurant, meeting room, indoor pool, spa, exercise room and lounge, and is supposed to open next April.

The site will also include a skinny lot next to the hotel that had been pegged to become the Fourth Street Lofts by developer Grady Pridgen. Pridgen said Tuesday he decided to sell the land to the Marriott developers for parking.

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[Benhamin]

Interesting. I always thought of the Pennsylvania Hotel as a prime candidte for restoration of an historic building, I guess someone agrees (which is always good ).