Sarasota’s Detwiler’s says no plans for St. Petersburg store — for now

Despite a weekend’s worth of chatter about Detwiler’s Farm Market opening a new store in St. Petersburg, an actual deal for the move is — for now at least — nonexistent.

In a statement Monday, Detwiler's said that “We have not secured any locations in the St. Pete area but we are always looking for options in surrounding areas and we never know when opportunities will allow us to expand.”

Talk of the chain opening a new store in a St. Petersburg shopping center began late last week when a developer working on a proposed redevelopment of the city-owned Tangerine Plaza at 1794 22nd St. S. casually mentioned in a city council meeting that his organization had been in talks with Detwiler's.