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Susan Taylor Martin - Bay Magazine Editor
Susan Taylor Martin

Bay Magazine Editor

I am the editor of Bay Magazine although you might recognize me from my longtime coverage of real estate in the Tampa Bay area. I grew up in New York City, went to college at Duke and wound up in Florida when my parents retired here. After working for more news organizations than I care to count, I was thrilled to join the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) in 1982. where I’ve been an editor, national correspondent and foreign correspondent (I still have a burqua from covering the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.) I retired long enough to take up painting and drawing and realize some people do retirement better than others!

  1. Selling a Tampa Bay house was supposed to be easy. Then I tried renovations.
    Jun. 8• Business
    Former Tampa Bay Times real estate reporter Susan Taylor Martin remodeled this St. Petersburg Home before putting it on the market earlier this year. It was an adventure. [Susan Taylor Martin]
  2. On Tierra Verde, the ‘Auto Trader’ compound is for sale
    Apr. 26• Life & Culture
    From this view, the home of the late Stuart Arnold is on the left side of the cul de sac, with tennis courts and all that lawn overlooking the water.
  3. Finding work for Tampa Bay ex-offenders during a pandemic
    Feb. 10• Business
    Executive director Michael Jalazo.
  5. 10 super Tampa Bay houses on sale Super Bowl week
    Feb. 3• Business
    An exterior look at the home owned by Derek Jeter at 58 Bahama Circle on Davis Islands on April 3, 2020 in Tampa. Bucs quarterback Tom Brady has rented it from Jeter.
  6. In Lealman, a mobile home park is the new retro solution to affordable housing
    Oct. 29, 2020• Business
    An empty field located on 46th Avenue and 39th Street, is to be redeveloped into an affordable housing community to be called, Oasis Acres. Some residents aren't happy with this plan, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020 in St. Petersburg.
  7. Work begins on prime West Shore land in Tampa, then is shut down
    Oct. 26, 2020• Business
    The site of the former Georgetown Apartments on S West Shore Boulevard, which was clear-cut recently for new construction.
  8. A conversation with Pinellas County Clerk of Court Ken Burke
    Sep. 24, 2020• Business
    Pinellas County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller. Ken Burke
  9. He’ll pay for $980,000 tax refund with almost 3 years in prison
    Jan. 23, 2020• Business
    Ramon Christopher Blanchett. [Courtesy of Ramon Christopher Blanchett]
  10. St. Pete is one of the country’s hottest new hotel markets. Here’s why.
    Jan. 7, 2020• Business
    The Tru by Hilton hotel under construction at 16th Street N and Central Avenue in St. Petersburg.
  11. Should a Tampa couple’s tent count as home sweet home?
    Jan. 2, 2020• Business
    In an effort to obtain a homestead exemption that would have saved them thousands of dollars in property taxes, the Baldwins slept in a tent on the grounds of their new house in Tampa before it was finished in 2015.
  12. All this stuff came from charities: Aren’t we supposed to give to them?
    Dec. 25, 2019• Business
    Charity swag - calendars, wrapping paper, pens and other items charities sent to one person this year as an inducement to donate.
  13. Tampa’s James Cordier sued over ‘catastrophic loss’ in options trading
    Dec. 24, 2019• Business
    James Cordier, the founder of OptionSellers.com, apologized in an emotional YouTube video in November 2018 that losses from bad bets on energy prices would likely lead to the demise of his firm.
  14. Tampa Bay home prices went from down, down, down to up, up, up in 10 years
    Dec. 24, 2019• Real Estate
    This house on 10th Street NE in St. Petersburg sold for $115,000 in 2009; $170,000 in 2012 and $249,000 in 2018.
  15. Tampa apartments sell for $37 million
    Dec. 23, 2019• Business
    The Point at West End apartments in Tampa.
  16. It cost $300,000 to get rid of another buyer but Tampa Bay estate finally sells for $10 million
    Dec. 23, 2019• Business
    This Tarpon Spring estate sold Dec. 19, 2019 for $10 million.
  17. Buyers can take a virtual tour of condo tower planned for Tampa’s Bayshore Boulevard
    Dec. 20, 2019• Real Estate
    A rendering of a unit in the proposed Altura Bayshore condo tower in Tampa.
  18. Pasco house prices soared in November with priciest sale in three years
    Dec. 19, 2019• Real Estate
    This home in Land O' Lakes sold for $1.9 million in November.
  19. This St. Petersburg house was a flip. See what it looks like now
    Dec. 19, 2019• Real Estate
    This house on Haines Road in St. Petersburg had little curb appeal when it sold for $112,000 in March.
  20. This isn’t just your everyday luxury townhome development
    Dec. 19, 2019• Business
    Salt Palm Development, a Certified B Corporation, recently broke ground for the Royal, a 13-unit townhome project in St. Petersburg. Prices will range from $550,000 to $1.3 million.
  21. Clearwater apartment community sells for $78 million
    Dec. 18, 2019• Business
    The Vue at Belleair
  22. Boat-up restaurant planned for Westshore Marina District
    Dec. 17, 2019• Business
    Renderings of Paloma, a boat-up restaurant planned for Tampa's Westshore Marina District.
  23. New Florida Margaritaville planned - but not for Tampa Bay
    Dec. 17, 2019• Business
    Latitude Margaritaville Watersound is planned for this site in Bay County in Florida's Panhandle.
  24. Church sells downtown St. Pete lot for $6.3 million; mixed-used tower planned
    Dec. 16, 2019• Business
    The parking lot for the Christ United Methodist Church is being sold to a developer, who plans a mixed-use building from 18 to 25 stories. [Times 2017]