Developer George Gandy funded the first bridge linking Tampa and St. Petersburg in the 1920s. It took $3 million and 1,500 workers to finish the 2.5-mile span. The Gandy Bridge was replaced in ...

Gandy? Bruce B. Downs? Here's the history behind the names. Even though the Gandy Bridge had already gotten a second span at that point, raising the number of lanes to four, it wasn’t enough to ...