Press

Forbes spotlights The Hiatus Hotel Clearwater Beach — a Celano Design Studio and 3H Group collaboration featuring a large hand-painted mural, teak wood interiors, and a rooftop pool bar positioned along the beach walk.

St. Petersburg's newest restaurant, Juno & The Peacock, debuts at 400 Beach Drive NE with an atmosphere of old-school American opulence — oysters Rockefeller, lobster tail escargot, and an unmistakably theatrical dining room.

Tampa Bay's restaurant scene is leading a national trend toward communal bar dining, with Boulon Brasserie and Allelo singled out as defining examples of the movement.

Behar + Peteranecz Inc. is named among the top residential architects in St. Petersburg, recognized as a design institution that perfectly balances detail, innovation, and practicality.

LBA Hospitality and 3H Group announce the grand opening of The Hiatus Clearwater Beach, Curio Collection by Hilton — an 88-room boutique hotel with a 10-story hand-painted exterior mural that has become a landmark for the community.

Berkeley Preparatory School's Chapel is recognized in AS&U's 2023 Architectural Portfolio for outstanding design, featuring vaulted blue-painted timber ceilings, a rose window, and a multi-tiered Mediterranean Revival bell tower.

Tampa Magazines profiles Next Level Brands — the team behind Forbici, Union New American, and Boulon Brasserie — and their mission to redefine Tampa Bay's culinary identity.

Union New American opens at 1111 N Westshore Blvd — Jeff Gigante's 32nd restaurant and third for Next Level Brands, featuring a live hearth concept in a 10,000-square-foot bi-level space.

Boulon Brasserie brings French-American brasserie dining to Water Street Tampa with mosaic tile floors, a towering backlit bar, beveled mirrors, and seating for 275 — a landmark addition to downtown Tampa's dining corridor.

AC Hotel Clearwater Beach opens at 395 Coronado Drive — a 144-room European-inspired Marriott property with the Soiree rooftop bar and sweeping Gulf of Mexico views.

Following a complete gut renovation of the former Annata space, Allelo debuts a bold new Mediterranean identity on Beach Drive — designed by award-winning firm AvroKO with local architectural touches.

Innisfree Hotels plans a new $60 million, 12-story tower at Pensacola Beach with 89 hotel rooms, 16 luxury condos, a helipad, and pool deck — unanimously approved at committee level by the SRIA board.

Jordan Behar of Behar Peteranecz Architecture leads the design for Sugar Hill Commons — a $3.1 billion mixed-use proposal for the Tropicana Field site featuring 2,000–3,200 residential units and a new pedestrian footbridge over I-175.

Wish Farms celebrates the ribbon cutting on its new 24,000-square-foot headquarters — featuring repurposed site wood, an adult-sized slide, treehouse, walking trails, and a 125,000-square-foot warehouse with solar array.

Florida Design Magazine features architect Jordan Behar's collaboration with interior designer Michelle Jennings Wiebe on a 9,500-square-foot Anglo-Caribbean coastal home in Belleair Beach, with a lap pool and sweeping Gulf views.

The Tampa Bay Business Journal spotlights BPA's 10,000-square-foot St. Petersburg warehouse studio — a former circus animal house transformed with four massive art installations, two 25-foot interior murals, and a 20-foot volcano sculpture.