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Placido Bayou consists of a combination
of 636 single-family homes, condominiums and townhouses.
This gated and guarded community has 10 stocked ponds
and nature preserves. Also, numerous walking and bicycle
trails. Within walking distance to 3 major shopping
areas and the Racquet Club of St. Petersburg, which
has 14 lighted clay courts, a café and a clubhouse.
Placido
Bayou
homes range from the $150's to the $1 millions.
A uniformed guard sits in a small building at the
end of 47th Avenue NE. Visitors must pass by him and
then through an electronic gate to enter the neighborhood
known as Placido Bayou. It is one of the few gated,
deed-restricted communities in St. Petersburg city
limits, and those who live there say they cherish the
privacy and sense of security it offers.
Its name is taken from the Italian word meaning tranquil,
and for centuries Placido Bayou, the protected body
of water that laps the shores of northeastern St. Petersburg,
was a peaceful habitat for marine life and host to
natural areas of mangroves, pines, oaks and wildlife
that grew up on its sandy beaches. Residential development
in the area, nestled between Shore Acres and Snell
Isle, was slow and spotty...continue>
BOUNDARIES
Placido Bayou is bounded by 54th Avenue Canal
to the north, 45th Avenue Canal to the south, Bayou Placido
to the east and 1st Street N. to the west. |
