The city, a downtown nonprofit and a renowned urban redevelopment expert are preparing to launch long-overdue upgrades at St. Petersburg’s Williams Park.
Dan Biederman, who is overseeing evolving design plans, returned to the area this week to tour St. Petersburg’s oldest park and meet with surrounding stakeholders. He received national acclaim in the early 1990s for transforming Bryant Park, then one of New York’s seediest, into a celebrated amenity.
Biederman’s decades of experience revitalizing dozens of public spaces throughout the country will help guide Williams Park’s makeover, which is set to begin in the spring with bandshell renovations. New programmatic elements will likely include small concerts, lectures, fitness classes, chess tables, carts with art supplies and children’s activities…