Venetian Isles, St. Petersburg

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Venetian Isles is an upscale waterfront community consisting of 518 homes. This group of manmade islands is located on Tampa Bay and reached by bridges, via Overlook Drive, Grand Canal Boulevard and Mermaid Point. As a deed restricted community, the homes were all built to comply with the following: minimum size living areas, concrete block construction with tile roofs, on minimum lot sizes, no fences except chain link and all homes had to have sodded lawn yards. Sibley Homes, Tessier Homes and Rutenberg Homes were the builders of all the homes. Mr. George R. Davis, a major developer on the Suncoast in the 1950s, was a "spark plug" in the development of Venetian Isles. Venetian Isles was billed as the area's largest and most costly waterfront project in 1958.

One of the more significant events of the Venetian Isles development was obtaining the deed to the submerged waters of Tampa Bay that would become 60% of Venetian Isles. Developed as a submerged water landfill project, it was built at an elevation of approximately 5-7 feet above the natural shoreline. This natural shoreline is now known as the development called Shore Acres which borders Venetian Isles on two sides. Venetian Isles residents have been spared the flooding problems of the hurricanes that have hit Florida since 1950.