Toytown - A 240 Acre Redevelopment Site
Toytown is a 240-acre historic landfill in mid-county with excellent interstate access, making it a very attractive prospect for a mixed-use redevelopment plan that could incorporate office/industrial, retail, residential and recreational development.

On July 1, 2008 the Pinellas Board of County Commissioners approved the purchase and sale agreement, which began the extensive due diligence and development review process necessary to further determine the feasibility of the plan to create an entirely new planned community – Villages at Gateway Fields. This ambitious project proposes to remake Pinellas County’s historic landfill, Toytown, into a mixed-use village that will allow residents to live, work, play and shop within a livable community designed to encourage walking, biking and mass transit.

The proposal, solicited during the open and competitive RFN process was conceived by Florida Gateway Development LLC, to create a nearly 300-acre mixed-use development. The Villages at Gateway Fields proposal includes 2 million square feet of office space; 1.5 million square feet of retail; 375 hotel rooms with 50,000 square feet of meeting and convention space; and a 2,113-unit residential village with a workforce housing component. Importantly, the proposal also includes 70 acres of new parks and recreation facilities.

Please see the document in the library below titled, "A Summary of Toytown's Redevelopment to The Villages at Gateway Fields" to read a more detailed description of this process and proposal.

• A Summary of Toytown's Redevelopment
  
• BCC 2007-01-30 BCC Worksession-(Unsolicited proposal) Item 2
  
• BCC 2008-01-22 Pinellas BCC Meeting (Approval of Ranking)
  
• BCC 2008-07-01 Pinellas BCC Meeting (Purchase Agreement)
  
• BCC 2008-07-01 Toytown Purch. & Sale Agreement
  
• BCC 2008-07-01 Toytown Purch. & Sale Agreement (Ex. A-F)
  
• BCC 2008-07-01 Toytown Purch. & Sale Agreement (LURA)
  
• BCC 2008-07-01 Toytown Significant Agreement Points (1.4 MB)
  
• BCC 2008-07-01 Villages At Gateway Fields (5.8 MB)
  
• INFO: Advertisement for RFN in Urban Land Inst. Magazine
  
• INFO: Aerial Photo Toytown 0025
  
• INFO: Contact Information for Toytown Redevelopment
  
• INFO: Flyer Toytown
  
• PERMIT: Attachments Toytown
  
• PERMIT: Toytown
  
• REPORT: Annual Operating Costs Toytown
  
• REPORT: Geotech Findings Toytown
  
• REPORT: Groundwater Monitoring Data Toytown
  
• REPORT: Surface Water Monitoring Data Toytown
  
• RFN Respondents Toytown
  
• RFN Response IRG-BCC (1) - Table of Contents (9,938 KB)
  
• RFN Response IRG-BCC (2) - Form A, Appendix A (5,308 KB)
  
• RFN Response IRG-BCC (3) - Appendix B (9,758 KB)
  
• RFN Response IRG-BCC (4) - Appendix C & D (9,505 KB)
  
• RFN Response Ryan Companies, et al. (6,374 KB)
  
• RFN Response Sembler - Introduction & Section 1 (659 KB)
  
• RFN Response Sembler - Section 2 & 3 (5,321 KB)
  
• RFN Response Sembler - Section 4 (1,234 KB)
  
• RFN Response Sembler - Section 5 (16,609 KB)
  
• RFN Response Sembler - Section 6 (1,126 KB)
  
• RFN Response Tri-City Kart Club (655 KB)
  
• RFN-Toytown (March 25, 2007)
  
• RFN-Toytown Addendum 1
  
• RFN-Toytown Addendum 2
  
• RFN-Toytown Ranking of Firms