by Eddie Pipkin

I was at the awesome new St. Pete Pier last week.  It is a testament to innovative public space planning.  It’s been enthusiastically embraced by the locals and lauded in national travel publications as a cool place to visit – and it is.  It combines fun, whimsy, nature, food, art, architecture, community, and exercise.  It has lots of great design features.  Here in the accompanying picture is a design element that delighted me: a free sunscreen dispenser!  Bravo!  That inclusion communicates, “Welcom