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Belleair residents plead with officials: don't demolish historic Belleview Biltmore hotel listen

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Tags: Belleview Biltmore, Belleaire, historic preservation

Owners of historic Belleview Biltmore hotel are moving ahead with plans to have it demolished. About 200 emotional residents went to a town hall meeting last night to tell town officials to save the iconic resort and golf club.

The Belleview Biltmore is in the town of Belleair between Largo and Clearwater. It’s more than 100 years old and at one point was the largest occupied wooden structure in the world. Now it sits in disrepair awaiting an unkno...