Pinellas Park site to be developed into mixed-use project with apartments and commercial space

A 5.98-acre, partly vacant property in Pinellas Park is slated for redevelopment trusty into a mixed-exercise challenge with apartments, retail and workplace home.

On Tuesday, October 20th, the Pinellas Park Metropolis Council authorized a prime Planned Unit Vogue (PUD) amendment for a 32-unit, four-myth rental building and an 8,000-sq.-foot, two-myth building with a clubhouse and industrial home at 7725 78th Avenue North.

The property on the 2d homes a 9,700-sq.-foot wedding ceremony venue and catering establishment, M & N Tournament Hall, which would remain. To the north and west are vacant industrial properties in unincorporated Pinellas County, beforehand the Wagon Wheel Flea Market.

The positioning was first authorized for mixed-exercise redevelopment in 2022 with 54 apartments and 4,000 sq. toes of enterprise home, however that approval expired attributable to no work started inner six months.

In 2024, the council authorized a revised opinion with 32 units and a 4,000-sq.-foot, one-myth industrial building. The latest amendment retains the unit count and density the same however changes the dimensions and web page of the industrial building, doubling it to eight,000 sq. toes and adding a 2d ground.

“I wanted to talk about why we are doing this and why it requires a PUD amendment. We are swapping the two constructions, the residential building and the industrial building, and the industrial building is getting an additional ground,” Matt Sylverain, main of Gulf Glide Consulting Inc., stated on the assembly.

“We are adding an additional ground attributable to we ran out of room within the residential building for a clubhouse, products and services or a gym, so we are placing it within the same building where we are going to have the industrial home,” he stated.

QT Construction is the developer. The four-myth, L-fashioned residential building, named Magnolia Apartments, will total about 59,120 sq. toes, with layouts starting from one to four bedrooms.

The first ground of the smaller building will home a clubhouse and pool home, with an outside pool and comparatively just a few products and services. The 2d ground will have workplace, retail and non-public products and services home.

A 200-home ground automotive car parking lot would sit within the heart of the boost. Sylverain well-known that a grass lot south of the gap could perhaps perhaps additionally additionally be ancient for overflow parking.

A building timeline was now not disclosed.

Metropolis Council individuals confirmed that the situations do in 2022 would carry over to the revised opinion. That 365 days, the gap was rezoned from Heavy Industrial to Overall Industrial (B-1) with a Blended Spend PUD overlay.

The situations incorporated products and services all the contrivance in which by contrivance of the shared pond, no balconies on the east side of the rental building, and close signs and flee humps put in with Public Works approval.