Residents in downtown St. Petersburg are at their wit’s end with monotonous booming near their home.

The city of St. Petersburg said it is the sound of economic development in downtown.

In reality its incessant banging that floods 3rd Street South day after day.

“It actually feels like a dinosaur is walking, it shakes the house,” said Daria Moore, resident.

“It’s like Chinese water torture,” said Tyler Kapela, resident.

Pile driving six days a week, eight hours a day since May has neighbors on edge.

Crews are building a 17-story apartment complex in an empty lot on 3rd Street South.

“All day you literally can feel it I have fish I can’t imagine what they’re going through in the fish tank you know like somebody pounding on the glass all day that’s what I attribute it to,” said Kapela.

The banging can be heard throughout a townhome complex across the street from the construction site.

Residents complain of shaking, banging, and nuisance noise in their residences.

“I got laid off at my job so I’ve been working from home applying for jobs and all I hear is the banging and vibration I have to get up and move around because it makes me nauseous," said Moore. "It’s bad.”

Across the street, at American Spirits liquor store, the bottles make music as they bang together and the liquor inside shakes.

The good news is, a city of St. Petersburg spokesperson said it’s all for the sake of downtown development.

This is one of several projects in the works right now.

Plus that spokesperson said the pile driving at the site on 3rd Street South should be complete in two weeks.

That spokesperson also said nearby residents were notified about the project before it started.