STAR search: Development opportunity seeks new direction

All three bids for a 96-acre Pinellas County tech park are rejected.

By Business Observer Staff
| 6:00 a.m. November 30, 2018
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Pinellas County's 96-acre STAR Center is no longer up for sale, at least for the time being. Courtesy photo.

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LARGO — The future of Pinellas County’s Young & Rainey Science Technology & Research Center has been thrown into doubt —again — after the county’s economic development agency rejected three bids for the 96-acre light industrial and technology park in Largo, whose value was appraised at $19.1 million in 2015.

The bidders that made the short list were Harrod Properties Inc., Clearview Tower Company II LLC and Belleair Development LLC. In accordance with state law, Pinellas County Economic Development did not disclose details of the bids.