Pinellas Park, Florida Pinellas Park City of Pinellas Park Location in Pinellas County and the state of Florida Location in Pinellas County and the state of Florida Pinellas Park is a town/city located in central Pinellas County, Florida, United States.
The populace was 49,079 at the 2010 census. Originally home to northern transplants and vacationers, the hundred year old town/city has grown into the fourth biggest city in Pinellas County, the most densely-populated county in Florida.
Pinellas Park contains a substantial portion of the "Gateway" region of the county, targeted for future infrastructure, residentiary, and commercial evolution as it sits roughly in the middle of the Tampa Bay area's over two million citizens .
On Park Boulevard, the city's earliest street and major thoroughfare, one can find anything from produce stalls and flea markets to high-end luxury vehicles.
The Florida Association, a corporation, set up model farms and offered a no-charge lot in the town/city with the purchase of ten acres of close-by farm land.
By 1912, lots in the town/city were being sold separately. The City of Pinellas Park was formally incorporated on October 14, 1914.
Although not on the initial Orange Line Railway, Pinellas Park did have a train depot, razed in 1970, on the line between Clearwater and St.
Pinellas Park is positioned at 27 51 08 N 82 42 26 W. Pinellas Park town/city limits are adjoining with those of St.
Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Seminole, Kenneth City, and unincorporated areas of Pinellas County.
Annexation into the town/city is voluntary by both the property owner and the City Council.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.2 square miles (41.9 km2), of which 15.5 square miles (40.2 km2) is territory and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2) (4.14%) is water. Through assembly of a network of drainage canals and other measures by the Pinellas Park Water Management District, flooding in the town/city has been greatly mitigated. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 89.04% White, 2.09% African American, 0.39% Native American, 1.25% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.00% from other competitions, and 2.22% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.4% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Like many areas in Florida, the populace of Pinellas Park swells temporarily, but substantially, for half the year as mostly-retired grownups (called "snow birds"), who reside elsewhere in the northern states or Canada amid the summer, come to Florida for its mild winter climate.
Pinellas Park has a Council-Manager form of government.
The current Mayor is Sandra Bradbury, who is the daughter of former Mayor Cecil Bradbury. The current City Manager is Douglas Lewis. Various volunteer citizen boards are appointed by the City Council to advise the Council on normal governmental matters.
The City maintains its own Police Department of more than 150 employees. Police Chief Mike Haworth in 2015 assumed the position previously held by Dorene Thomas, the first female police chief in the county. Interior shot of Park Station, a municipal building of Pinellas Park, Florida housing meeting rooms for the historical society, garden club, and arts society, the Chamber of Commerce, a counter service deli, and dining area.
Pinellas Park is known throughout the Tampa Bay region for a series of improve affairs held annually in a city-owned bandshell positioned behind City hall.
The most prominent of these affairs is "Country in the Park", a festival held every year generally on the third Saturday of March, but always after the Florida State Fair and Florida Strawberry Festival.
The festival's popularity stems from its wide array of affairs, such as arts and crafts shows, NASCAR displays, prominent amusement park rides, and multi-artist day-long concerts, and the fact that parking, entry to the festival, and attendance of the concert are all no-charge of charge.
As of 2011, the Country in the Park festival has been organized for 21 years straight. Another prominent celebration among the locals is Pride in the Park.
Pinellas Park is home to a memorial to the Korean War, positioned in Freedom Lake Park.
The Pinellas Park Civic Orchestra and the Sunsation Show Chorus perform regularly in the City-owned 500-seat Performing Arts Center.
The Pinellas Park Arts Society holds monthly themed contests in the Park Station building, close to the Creative District.
The exhibition homes a unique working full-scale replica of the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle, the fardier of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. Luxury cars presently displayed and sold in Pinellas Park include Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Bentley, Mc - Laren, and Aston Martin.
The du - Pont Registry, a luxury car periodical trade publisher, is headquartered in Pinellas Park.
The town/city is served by the Pinellas County Schools district.
Most of the city's high school students attend Pinellas Park High School or Dixie M.
Bill Young Armed Forces Reserve Center in Pinellas Park, Fla., to send birthday greetings to the U.S.
With its easy access to the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay, Pinellas Park is home to many marine businesses, from manufacturing to service and supplies.
Large optical manufacturers, including Transitions Optical, are positioned either in Pinellas Park or nearby. Davidoff of Geneva, a cigar and luxury goods company, has its U.S.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics' Pinellas Park facility specializes in metal forming, fabrication and assembly of components for military and civilian airplane .
Several of the biggest employers in Pinellas County occupy parcels adjoining with the city, including Raymond James Financial, Transamerica Financial, Cisco, FIS (credit card services), Valpak (advertising mailers), Orbital ATK (defense electronics), and Home Shopping Network.
The town/city has three concentrations of retail company all along Park Boulevard.
19, the Shoppes at Park Place anchor the city's second retail core with big-box retailers and a large movie theater.
Due to the momentous Vietnamese, Laotian, Indian, and southeast Asian community, Pinellas Park is home to one of the biggest concentrations of ethnic restaurants, businesses, and specialty vendors serving those communities in the southeast.
The Pinellas Park Chamber of Commerce promotes the interests of small-town and close-by businesses, contributing to the overall vitality and cooperative nature of the mid-county economy.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Pinellas Park city, Florida".
Petersburg, Florida: Sunshine City Stories.
Pinellas County Historical Background (PDF).
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Pinellas Park city, Florida".
Pinellas Park Beacon.
Pinellas Park, Florida.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Pinellas Park.
Municipalities and communities of Pinellas County, Florida, United States
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