St. Petersburg Scare Park Uses Shipping Containers for Haunted Rooms
TAMPA BAY, Fla. (September, 2017) – Florida’s Newest Haunted Attraction announced it’s opening only a few months ago. During this short period time the Blood District committee has built a scare park out of shipping containers and make shift walls. The idea to use the shipping containers as haunted rooms originated from a local group of creative entrepreneurs who are now ready to launch the 16 Day event in the Warehouse Arts District starting October 5th.
The event features event midway area with food, beverages, vendors and scary entertainers. Along with the event festivities, event goers will have the chance to enter at their own risk into two haunted attractions with several scare zones. Thrill seekers will come from all over to be scared to death in the Blood District.
The event is designed by the same creative team that produces the annual event, St.Pete Art & Fashion Week. The team plans to bring in creative artists and groups to help in the making of the event. This will provide jobs, and learning experiences for many local residents. The event will showcase creativity in costume design, set design, acting, film and photography.
The Blood District will support the Warehouse Arts District Association as its beneficiary. The nonprofit, WADA, has launched an innovative plan to expand and preserve a growing artists’ colony within an industrial warehouse district in St. Petersburg. The 50,000-square-foot facility, named the ArtsXchange, will offer an affordable working space for artists of all mediums from paint to metal work to sculpture. The Warehouse Arts District is currently fundraising for this project. Over 400 artists are on the waiting list such as photographers, painters, graphic artists, metal workers, sculptors and other mixed media artists with 24 artists scheduled to lease space in September 2017.
The Blood District Dates and Times
EVENT DATES
October 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st
HOURS
Weekdays- 7pm-11pm
Friday & Saturday- 7pm-12am
Tickets to the event are available for $15 online in advance or $20 at the door. Ticket coupons will also be available at select locations throughout Tampa Bay. Tickets and a complete event dates are available online at www.BloodDistrict.com
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WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: The Warehouse Arts District Association in midtown St. Petersburg has emerged as a thriving economic artistic community. Educational efforts continue to build a knowledge of and appreciation for art accessible to everyone.
In 2014, with the help of public and private donors, the Association purchased 2.7 acres of land along 22nd Street South and the Pinellas Trail. The project, now known as the ArtsX- change is comprised of six warehouse buildings that total more than 50,000 square feet of space. The next phase of fundraising — about $800,000 — is aimed toward the construction of around 28 studios that will be built on two levels inside the skin of one of the existing ware- houses. The studios will be self-supporting with stabilized rents helping to keep our artists in St. Pete as the district becomes more popular. The building will also include an incubator area and an event space that will offer gallery and gathering opportunities. This project is transfor- mational for the midtown area as blighted property becomes an inspirational arts destination!
