A beachfront property identified for its red cottage-vogue villas on St. Pete Sea glide could possibly get replaced with a six-myth, 34-room resort below plans no longer too long within the past presented to neighboring apartment house owners.
Kevin Bowden, who owns the Miramar Sea glide Resort on St. Pete Sea glide and the Cambria Hotel in Madeira Sea glide, is proposing to redevelop the 0.89-acre Sea glide Haven Villas property at 4980 Gulf Boulevard.
The property is in St. Pete Sea glide’s Colossal Resort District, which permits as a lot as 50 hotel rooms per acre.
Bowden bought Sea glide Haven Villas for roughly $6.24 million in January 2025.
The 1949-constructed hotel in transient closed after Hurricanes Helene and Milton broken several devices. It has since reopened following repairs however does no longer meet contemporary FEMA necessities.
Under the proposed belief, the existing 18-unit hotel, pool, and parking train can be demolished for a brand modern 34-room boutique resort with lined parking at ground level, four floors of visitor rooms, a restaurant and bar overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, and an delivery-air, lined rooftop lounge.
Bowden and architect John “Jack” Bodziak presented the preliminary plans at some stage in a neighborhood meeting Wednesday night attended by residents of the adjoining Beau Monde and Gulf 5000 condominiums.
At ground level, the plans show a swimming pool, pool bar, cabanas, and visitor lounge train overlooking the seaside.
The second ground would contain a front desk, sanatorium, enterprise room, and seven devices. Floors three thru 5 would hang the rest 27 rooms, every with a balcony facing or angled in the direction of the seaside.
A sixth-ground restaurant and bar would contain indoor seating, a kitchen, and 2 outdoors dining areas. Bowden acknowledged it may possibly possibly possibly provide a dining skills equivalent to Ember, the rooftop restaurant and bar at the Cambria Hotel.
The resort would contain 58 parking areas.
The plans list the mission at 50 ft above the unsuitable flood elevation, with the bottom ground elevated to follow contemporary flood requirements.
The proposal drew on the spot concerns from some neighboring apartment house owners, who acknowledged the modern building could possibly obstruct seaside views and manufacture privateness points by putting hotel balconies and public restaurant seating near their residences.
Some residents urged challenging the building farther east to give protection to views from adjoining condos. Bowden acknowledged doing so would lower the parking accessible on the narrow situation.
“For every 10 ft we construct farther inspire from the Gulf, we could possibly presumably be shedding two parking areas, so if I transfer it inspire 50 ft, I lose 10 areas that we need, however it unquestionably would allow a couple of of the condominium house owners to preserve their gaze,” Bowden acknowledged.
Bowden acknowledged extra setbacks from the neighboring apartment structures would require reducing the room count, whereas the mission can’t be constructed taller below contemporary rules.
He and Bodziak acknowledged they would reassess the make and abolish a exact-religion effort to better take care of neighbors’ concerns whereas preserving a feasible redevelopment belief.
The property sits no longer as a lot as a half of-mile north of Bowden’s Miramar Sea glide Resort at 4200 Gulf Boulevard, where a renovation and growth is nearing completion. That mission contains a brand modern 30-room, eight-myth hotel tower and is known as a half of the JdV by Hyatt series.
If the mission advances thru St. Pete Sea glide’s approval course of, Bowden acknowledged he hopes to delivery construction by mid-2027 and whole the resort by the close of 2028.
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