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St. Pete Beach weighs repair or demolition for Pass-a-Grille shuffleboard building and Mary Pier bait shack
Summary
City staff reported repair and demolition cost estimates for two storm-damaged Pass-a-Grille facilities — the historically designated shuffleboard clubhouse and the Mary Pier bait shack — and commissioners asked staff to pursue additional appraisals, insurance coordination and repair/demolition options while residents urged preservation.
Camden Mills, the city’s public services director, told the City Commission on April 22 that two Pass-a-Grille structures damaged by recent storms — the shuffleboard clubhouse on Ninth Avenue and the Mary Pier bait shack at 801 Passa Grill Way — face competing repair, demolition and funding pressures.
Mills said the club building is historically designated and that contractor replacement estimates are “in the range of a hundred and $76,000.” He told commissioners the city has received just under $83,000 from insurance so far and that the historic-preservation board voted 5-0 in January in favor of demolition for that structure. Mills said the lowest responsive demolition quote received for the shuffleboard building was just over $8,000.
The Mary Pier bait shack, which Mills said was built in 1979 and is not itself historically designated, has an insurance-appraised value “just under $75,000.” He said a contractor estimate from Cotton Global for repairs is about $96,000 (not including plumbing) and that the city…
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