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VENICE – Venice Regional Bayfront Health has contracted with Barry Seidel at American Property Group of Sarasota Inc. to sell 50-plus acres it owns at 2665 East Venice Avenue that had been eyed as a new hospital site.
The land is being listed at $12.99 million, and though it is currently zoned OPI, or office-professional and institutional, the new buyer will have to petition Sarasota County to change it back to residential zoning before development.
“I see it being rezoned again and probably to the delight of the neighborhood,” Seidel said.
When the Sarasota County Commission voted in January 2019 to change the zoning of the parcel in anticipation of Venice Regional building a 210-bed hospital, it did so with the caveat that if a hospital wasn’t built, it should revert to residential use.