Work starts on $12.8M Sarasota County facility to fight mosquitos

A Lakewood Ranch-based commercial construction company has begun building Sarasota County’s new Mosquito Management Facility.

Halfacre Construction Co. broke ground on the $12.8 million project at 16500 Honore Ave. in Nokomis last week, and work is expected to be complete in the spring of 2025, according to a statement. 

The project is a one-story, 19,822-square-foot storm-hardened building that will include an administration area, laboratories, chemical storage, CO2 trap storage, insectary, chicken coop for baby chicks, mature chicken coop, aquaculture facility to breed and raise mosquito-eating fish, aquaculture plant and a vegetable garden.