A public parking garage’s rooftop garden will offer St. Petersburg office workers, hotel guests and residents a prehistoric amenity – rare dinosaur bones.
Ellison Development announced Monday that The Central, an under-construction mixed-use project in St. Petersburg’s EDGE District, will feature a 76-million-year-old Gorgosaurus skeleton. The dinosaur predates its relative, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, by 10 million years.
Sidd Pagidipati, co-founder of Tampa-based Ellison Development, named the ancient skeleton Devaiah after his father. The Central’s 11-story office tower, known as Halcyon, and 15-story Marriott Autograph Collection Hotel will overlook the only privately–owned Gorgosaurus specimen among 20 worldwide…