Belleair’s Belleview Biltmore renovation plans are dead
BELLEAIR — Owners of the Belleview Biltmore say hopes of saving it from demolition are dead after an architect who had pledged to renovate the historic landmark missed his Oct. 31 deadline to buy the property.
For more than a year, officials say, Richard Heisenbottle had been trying to raise $200,000 in earnest money to purchase the property from Miami investors Raphael and Daniel Ades. Despite their hesitation, consultant Bob Smither said, the Ades brothers had given Heisenbottle a 30-day extension as recently as last month.