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.
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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.
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