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Tampa Bay Times Analysis of Statewide Polls Shows That Donald Trump Trails Joe Biden Tampa Bay teams are preparing to play in the still of stadiums that have few or no spectators, with far-ranging effects for players and fans. Sports, 1C FLORIDA’S BEST NEWSPAPER tampabay.com **** Sunday, July 5, 2020 | $2 Fla. voters ST. PETE PIER swinging A landmark to away from capture a city’s Spread across 26 acres of St. Petersburg’s waterfront, the president new Pier District opens to the public Monday. art and soul A Tampa Bay Times analysis of statewide polls shows that Donald Trump trails Joe Biden. BY STEVE CONTORNO AND LANGSTON TAYLOR Times Staff Writers President Donald Trump is losing his hold on important swing voters in Florida, imper- iling his chance of another four years in office, according to recent polls. The global health catastrophe, ensuing eco- nomic collapse and protests nationwide have tested Trump’s leadership and left his popular- ity diminished, polls have found. The fallout has created an opening in the country’s larg- est swing state for his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden leads Trump in Florida by 5 percentage points, 47.4 percent to 42.5 percent according to a Tampa Bay Times analysis of statewide poll- ing data. The average isn’t perfect, and neither is any poll. Each poll comes with a margin of error, See POLL, 7A DIRK SHADD | Times Lou Claudio, 67, stands in parking lot 1 at Tropicana Field, where he believes the Oaklawn Cemetery was once located. Tropicana Field parking lots could be grave sites Those buried in 3 cemeteries were to have been moved, but it’s possible the job was not done. BY PAUL GUZZO Times Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Thirty years ago, resi- dents stepped forward when the city prepared to pave parking lots 1 and 2 for Tropicana Field. They thought caskets were under those 12 Photos by BOYZELL HOSEY | Times acres on the corner of 16th Street S, spreading The signature sculpture of the new St. Petersburg Pier District, Bending Arc by renowned artist Janet Echelman, glows Tuesday. from Third to Fifth avenues. It was once the home to Oaklawn Cemetery, the city was told, and bodies were likely left t. Petersburg’s $92 million Pier District makes its debut this week, with 26 acres stretching from the edge of behind when it was moved in the mid-20th cen- downtown out into Tampa Bay. • The waterfront park features a tilted lawn that people can sit on and children tury. Oaklawn was adjacent to two other cemeter- can roll down. Panoramic views abound. Also on tap: a beach, a playground, restaurants, shops, a fishing deck ies. In 1976, human remains were unearthed and a center that teaches about the Tampa Bay ecosystem. • Natural shade is enhanced with broad umbrellas, from one of those properties during construc- Ssolar panel roofs and three main structures, including one that rises five stories above the water at the Pier’s end. Seating is tion, years after the burial grounds were sup- posed to have been moved, bolstering the belief plentiful, as are works of public art, including an aerial net sculpture by international artist Janet Echelman that steals the that bodies were also under the parking lot show above the family park. • At this, the latest iteration in more than a century of St. Petersburg piers, there’s much to do land. But the land was paved without further inves- and see and a chance to simply be. • For a closer look at the Pier and its surroundings, see Floridian, 1E. tigation. See GRAVES, 8A ANOTHER RECORD FOR LOCAL PROTESTS SURGE CATCH UP ON NEWS: Note to Storms start early INDEX readers 8 a.m. Noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m. Business 1D Lottery 2A Classified F Perspective 1P CORONAVIRUS CASES ON THE FOURTH OF JULY THE WEEK IN REVIEW There is no Florida hit another single-day record for Demonstrators on both sides of Tampa More than 18,000 Floridians who voted Parade maga- Editorial 2P Puzzles F positive coronavirus tests Saturday, with Bay seized the holiday to condemn rac- by mail in March’s presidential primary zine in today’s 81° 86° 88° 84° Floridian 1E Sports 1C 11,458 new cases. The state is closing in ism and police brutality. One group shut did not have their votes counted, Times. It will 70% chance of rain on 200,000 total infections and may sur- down the Treasure Island Causeway. In according to an analysis by elections be back next More, back page of Sports pass that this weekend if cases continue Tampa, another group halted traffic on experts and academics. More, 8C week. at the same rate as recent days. 1B one of the city’s busiest roadways. 1B More headlines, 10B © Times Publishing Co. 6E | Sunday, July 5, 2020 | Tampa Bay Times ST. PETE PIER OPENING Take in new artwork to add to your experience BY MAGGIE DUFFY she was inspired by the site’s Times Staff Writer “multi-layered cultural and nat- For all its natural beauty and ural history.” For the design, she million-dollar views, the new St. studied old postcards of the Pier Pete Pier will have another aes- and Spa Beach and created pat- thetic element in the form of terns inspired by beach umbrel- public art. las and barnacles. After years of planning, com- She also researched the site’s mittee meetings and controversy, “social and political history with four distinct pieces have been respect to both who was given installed throughout the Pier. and who was denied access to The most high-profile piece is its natural beauty and recre- Janet Echelman’s Bending Arc, ational pleasures.” The title is an aerial net sculpture that is taken from a phrase by Dr. Mar- now suspended above a family tin Luther King Jr.: “The arc of park on the Pier’s approach. the moral universe is long, but it When the idea to commission SCOTT KEELER | Times SCOTT KEELER | Times bends toward justice.” the Boston-based, Tampa-born, Xenobia Bailey’s Morning Stars glass mosaic, peeking out on The sculpture Olnetopia by Belgian artist Nick Ervinck is The other three pieces that world-renowned artist was pro- the path to and from the Pier head, will be a good selfie spot. situated at the Pier head. were chosen by the Pier Public posed in 2017, many wondered Art Selection Committee come why a local artist wasn’t being with less scrutiny than Bending considered. Laura Bryant, who Arc. But some residents voiced was Pier public art commit- disapproval that the artists who tee chairwoman and suggested created them are also not local. Echelman for the new Pier, pos- “We decided early on that while ited that working with the artist we were more than happy to con- whose sculptures are on display sider and look at the work of local around the world would elevate artists, many of whom are friends the city’s status. of all of us, many of whose work Echelman integrates archi- we admire, we were not going to tecture, urban design and struc- give any preference to local art- tural and aeronautical engineer- ists,” said Laura Bryant. ing into her work. Bryant said that in the early The committee paid $75,000 stages, local names were brought to secure Echelman so she could up as potential artists for the conduct a feasibility study before project. But two architects on constructing the piece, a deci- SCOTT KEELER | Times the committee pointed out, as sion that created debate among Nathan Mabry’s Myth, a metal did Bryant, that artists wouldn’t committee members. origami pelican sculpture, apply for a project that stated Mayor Rick Kriseman made it greets visitors near the up front that it would give pref- a personal mission to bring the St. Pete Pier’s entrance. erence to local artists. They felt sculpture to the city. He raised that would inhibit the entries. $1.25 million in private money blend with the sky, giving the The committee hired Ann to pay for the sculpture and effect of gazing at clouds. The Wykell to put together a list of another $400,000 to help cover grassy park filled with plants artists they would invite to sub- costs for the infrastructure, was built with just that in mind, mit works, and they also did an including the foundation, light- BOYZELL HOSEY | TImes with berms in the ground on open call. They received 300 ing and four pylons. Bending Arc, an aerial net sculpture by Boston-based, Tampa-born, world-renowned artist Janet which to lounge. At night, it’s a applications, which Wykell went The city also allocated $1.3 Echelman, lights up the night sky at the St. Pete Pier’s approach on Tuesday during a test run. whole different experience when through, researching each art- million in tax increment financ- LED colored lights in a palette of ist’s past experience to ensure ing funds for the design and air. And being on the water, it’s advised measures to ensure that over the site of a family park. magentas and violets transform they were capable of completing construction of the infrastruc- always going to have an energy wouldn’t happen. Installation began in the begin- the sculpture’s physical color. the work. ture. The Public Art Commis- to it.” “The art installation’s move- ning of January, but the artist It’s attached to poles that Local artists did apply, and Bry- sion also committed $250,000 It was originally proposed that ment, color, wide net mesh decided to make netting hand resemble sail masts, done inten- ant said that some of them got to the project.
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