Iration / Facebook Credit: Christopher "Fiq" Colclasure
Only two years following its opening, the St. Pete Pier nabbed an Urban Land Institute’s 2022 Americas Award for Excellence, which recognizes the greatest new urban designs in the country.

The waterfront oasis was the only place in the Southeast to be recognized. If you want to experience what makes the Pier award-worthy and enjoy live music at the same time, catch Santa Barbara-based reggae group Iration, alongside Atmosphere, Passafire and The Grouch with DJ Fresh.

This article appears in Jul 14-20, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...