Another St. Pete Beach restaurant destroyed by the 2024 hurricanes has a second chance.
Woody’s Waterfront in St. Pete Beach, which served patrons for 35 years before its closure, is now owned by Twitch video game streamer Turner Tenney, aka Tfue.
He purchased the property at 7308 Sunset Way for $2.4 million, per St. Pete Rising. That’s nearly half of what Woody’s owners and sisters Marlo George and Roxene Riles listed the restaurant and two adjacent empty lots for last year. Their parents purchased the three parcels in 1989 for $526,100.
The 2,394-square-foot building started as a bait house in the 1940s, later turning into the Sunset Inn, then the iconic Woody’s Restaurant and Bar. Its longtime slogan was “So close to the water, your burger will get wet!”
Tenney lives in Indian Rocks Beach, where he streams games like Fortnite to more than 11.4 million followers on Twitch and 11.7 million on YouTube.
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