When the Urban Land Institute (ULI) named the St. Pete Pier one of the world’s best new urban designs, it also awarded the surrounding district that serves as the city’s “front door.”
The 26-acre Pier District was one of six global projects, and just two in the U.S., to receive the ULI’s top honor when it announced the 2022 Global Awards for Excellence Monday. The organization, which bills itself as the oldest and largest network of land use experts (it was founded in 1936), called the Pier "a unique public entity in today's world."
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