Largo

Largo

The City of Largo has been trying to revive the economy of downtown through financial incentives and infrastructure improvements. A group of consultants visited the city through the Main Street Program last spring to take stock of Largo’s progress and to make suggestions on what the city needs to do to make downtown a vibrant area of commerce. The group concluded that they are making real strides, and presented their findings to civic and business leaders at the Greater Chamber of Commerce. Largo is an associate Main Street city, coordinated by Lotta Baumann.

Since that time, the $4.2 million widening project of a major thoroughfare is well under way, and the city has taken bids from developers interested in buying land just west of the project that used to be the City Hall. Largo has a residential area around the area being developed, with brick streets and homes built before World War II, which could be designated an historic district. Projects being discussed for the future are a parking garage and library in the downtown area.