The passenger ferry linking downtown St. Pete and downtown Tampa may soon have a new home on the St. Pete Pier.
As the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) prepares to relaunch the Tampa Bay Ferry, formerly known as the Cross Bay Ferry, the city is evaluating plans to construct a permanent dock near the St. Petersburg Museum of History, according to documents obtained by St. Pete Rising.
When the ferry service launched in 2016, it carried passengers on a roughly 50-minute trip from the former inverted-pyramid pier in downtown St. Pete to the Tampa Convention Center in downtown Tampa…