JMC has committed $13 million for the renovation and repositioning of the vintage hotel’s original 52-by-65-foot lobby and 35 guest rooms to create the Belleview Inn boutique hotel. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 141 reuse in the property’s new construction, or for sale to others with a keen sense of history. When completed, the restored Queen Anne Victorian-style Belleview Inn boutique hotel will look very much like it did when Henry Plant built it in 1897 as a resort destination for tourists, celebrities and wealthy northern families with their entourages, who patronized his railroad system. As in the 1920s and later, its wooden siding will be painted white and its roof will be painted green, complete with hips, gables and dormers. The entrance, minus a modernistic addition by Japanese owners in the 1990s, will return to its original position and appropriate architectural style. Along with indoor and outdoor event and public spaces, a Tiffany Room, complete with the leaded glass panels from the old hotel’s former and larger Tiffany Ballroom, will be available for corporate and social functions. Another room will showcase memorabilia and history. The new Belleview Inn also will feature a resort-style pool and spa, a sun deck, a fitness room plus a reinvented version of Maisie’s Marketplace, named for the wife of Henry Plant’s son Morton. The Belleview Inn will be more than a boutique hotel. It will also serve as the amenity center for JMC Communities’ new Belleview Place, which will feature 104 condominium residences in four midrise buildings situated in a semicircle around the Inn and 28 two-story Carriage Homes that will flank the entry drive of the gated community and the adjacent Belleair Country Club. The beauty and vitality of this beloved property, which sat so long in seemingly irreversible disrepair, has been saved. As JMC Communities completes the Belleview Inn and residences, the Belleview Biltmore property again will be filled with activity and smiling faces. 9 EDITOR’S NOTE: For updates about the Belleview Inn boutique hotel and its nearby Belleview Place condominium residences and Carriage Homes at 275 Belleview Boulevard in Belleair, Florida, or to find out more about the Belleview Biltmore’s salvaged materials, you can visit BelleviewPlace.com or call (727) 469-7070. The original 1897 Belleview Hotel, as it was called before new owners changed it to the Belleview Biltmore Hotel in 1919, was known for its grand elegance and striking architectural details. Renovation of the Belleview Inn boutique hotel, which will also serve as the new Belleview Place homes’ amenity center, is scheduled to be completed in mid-2018. BELLEVIEW ARCHIVES JMC COMMUNITIES JMC COMMUNITIES
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