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Historic Belleair Hotel at Risk For Demolition

For those of you that reside in Bellair, Clearwater or anywhere in Pinellas County, there is a meeting TONIGHT at 7:30 to decide the fate of the historic Belleview Biltmore Hotel.

This is one of Florida’s last grand wooden hotels and the new owners would like to tear most of it down for town homes. This goes against the fact that it was added to the National Register for Historic Places in 1979, but who really pays attention to all those annoying historical preservation policies, right?

More information on this complicated web of developers, plans and economic issues can be found on the Save The Biltmore web page.

If you can’t attend the meeting then email your thoughts to the Mayor at gkatica@townofbelleair.net or the town commission at commission@townofbellair.net

1.17.2012 |