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
Pinellas County's 96-acre STAR Center is no longer up for sale, at least for the time being. Courtesy photo.
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.

 

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