St. Petersburg's Signature is a signature building
A year ago a building down the street from me got its certificate of occupancy after a nearly two year build. I can see over downtown from my living room windows and watching this building rise from ground was two year long thrill. The building is called the Signature and it's a waterfront condominium tower and street-level work/ live space. The building's a stunner and made all the more so when its compared to the usual dreck that gets built on waterfronts in the fair state I call home.
The Signature was designed by architect Ralph Johnson from Chicago's Perkins + Will . I cannot think of a more thoughtful and interesting building on Florida's entire west coast.
The complicated is certainly a complex of lofts and storefronts that ring the tower and all told the undertaking takes up a whole block of downtown St. Pete.
I see the constructing from its northern elevation and whilst considered from the north or the south it appears to be a monolith ringed with balconies and crowned with a real roof.
Seen from the east, the constructing all however disappears. The main edge of the tower comes to a really perfect, 372-foot tall main aspect that faces the water. The architect designed the building to be an homage to the boat sails within the marinas downtown and his homage works. This is a 36-tale constructing it's 372 feet tall and it seems to be as sleek and ethereal as any sail ought to ever hope to be.
In a fit of thoughtfulness, the building's orientation minimizes the blocked water views in the neighboring towers and it leaves a surprisingly small footprint on St. Pete's rightfully bally-hooed, accessible waterfront.
I walked around it the other afternoon and stuck a number of it's more fascinating angles. Things being what they're inside the real property market here, there are nonetheless devices available within the Signature and at this stage of the sport, the charges begin at $185K. That's about a third of the entry-degree asking rate made available pre-production. By neighborhood requirements, it's an exceptional asking rate. The constructing's extremely properly-constructed and the level of finishes the builder built into the devices is especially right.
In every way imaginable, the Signature is a signature building for my beloved St. Pete and its place along waterfront marks a real departure from what's expected out of St. Pete. This was after all, once a city referred to as "God's Waiting Room." My how times have changed.