Several Tampa Bay news outlets covered St. Pete’s newest skyscraper. But a satire site may have done the best job at telling residents’ side of the story.
A cluster of century-old buildings on the corner of 4th Street South and 4th Avenue were vacant for a year before a developer hired local artists to turn them pink. In St. Pete fashion, the buildings became a canvas. In late February, artwork climbed their cotton-candy facades during a “mural flash mob,” crowds gathered for photo ops organized by the people who will soon tear the historic buildings down.
The social media account St. Pete Razing (not to be confused with the blog St. Pete Rising) framed the house’s new pink costume with into mock-occult language, describing the repainting as a “transitional submission phase” and a “ceremonial humiliation,” to strip the buildings of their former identity.
Why so salty?…