Fergs Sports Bar & Grill
Phone: (727) 822-4562
1320 Central Ave., St Petersburg, Florida
Ferg’s Sports
Bar is best typified by the song in the long running NBC sitcom,
CHEERS,”.. . where everybody knows your name and we’re always glad you
came.” Across From Tropicana Field.
Character is what makes
Ferg’s “what a sports bar was meant to be!” It provides every customer,
from the youngest sports fan to the season ticket holder, with an
experience that keeps them coming back for more. The bar depicts a family
atmosphere which stems from the vision of one man’s dream.
Mark Ferguson, a man with
vision, who saw an opportunity and took advantage of it, He bought an old
Sunoco Gas Station and created Ferg’s in hopes that St. Petersburg would
obtain a Major League Baseball franchise.
His vision was temporarily
dashed when Miami was awarded the baseball franchise. But Mark Ferguson
was determined that one day his concept of a sports bar in what was an
impoverished downtown would work.
Without baseball, survival
would be Ferg’s first concern. Mark Ferguson, a headstrong, yet a savvy
entrepreneur, began to sponsor local softball, flag football and
basketball leagues. Soon thereafter, Tropicana Field (formerly known as
the Thunder Dome) became the host of the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Tampa
Bay Storm. In Ferguson’s eyes, this was the first ray of hope of
accomplishing what he had originally set out to do. Hockey and Arena
Football provided Mark Ferguson with the capital and exposure to take his
dream one step further - expansion.
His dream came to fruition
with the announcement that Major League Baseball had awarded St.
Petersburg with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Any ordinary individual could
have come up with an idea of having a sports bar located next to a
professional sports facility, but one man’s belief in the popular slogan
“If you build it, they will come,” made Ferg’s. Though many trials and
tribulations Ferg’s Sport Bar & Grill has not only become downtown’s best
sport bar, but a city institution.
(727) 822-4562 | 1320 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg, Florida
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