Maximo Park gets greener in Super Bowl LV initiative
December 8, 2020 - Maximo Park in south St. Petersburg got a spruce up as part of efforts by the National Football League, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Super Bowl LV Host Committee to leave a green legacy in cities where the championship football game is played. Keep Pinellas Beautiful, the City of St. Petersburg Parks Department and TREE Inc. joined community volunteers to remove invasive plants, remove litter from the park, and plant native shoreline trees, mangroves and a mixture of ground cover including beach sunflower and seagrasses to help stabilize the area and protect against shoreline erosion. Other parks in the greening project were Picnic Island, along the southwestern tip of Interbay Peninsula, and Mosaic Park on the Alafia River.