{"id":171870,"date":"2026-02-27T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171870\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:39:07","slug":"empath-health-site-in-largo-sells-for-19-million-376-unit-apartment-community-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171870\/","title":{"rendered":"Empath Health site in Largo sells for $19 million, 376-unit apartment community planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Greystar will demolish the existing buildings and develop Birchway Bayside, a 376-unit apartment community spanning 19 buildings with a mix of apartments and townhomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The group had been <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/376-unit-residential-community-proposed-for-22-acre-empath-health-campus-in-largo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">under contract to purchase the site<\/a> for nearly a year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The planned community will have green space with gravel paths, gardens, sports areas, two dog parks, playgrounds, a potential putting green, a pool with an accompanying clubhouse, a shaded hammock area, and a walking trail along a large stormwater pond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The community will contain 693 parking spaces, mostly surface parking, along with a handful of covered spaces and two-car garages for townhome residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Of the 376 planned apartments at Birchway Bayside, 151 will be set aside as income-restricted affordable housing. The remaining units will be offered at market rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The affordable housing component is a requirement under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.largo.com\/live_local_act.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida\u2019s Live Local Act (LLA)<\/a>, a statewide law passed in 2023 that is designed to expand affordable and workforce housing options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greystar will demolish the existing buildings and develop Birchway Bayside, a 376-unit apartment community spanning 19 buildings with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-171870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}