About Pinellas Point
The Florida peninsula called Pinellas is surrounded
by water on three sides. It is shaped very much like the state
of Florida. And like the state, on the west is the Gulf of Mexico.
The east and south sides of the county face Tampa Bay, an area
whose bountiful waters fi rst attracted native Indian settlers
many hundreds of years ago.
Pinellas is part of a four-county metropolitan
statistical area (MSA) referred to as Tampa Bay. It includes Pinellas,
Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando.
The Tampa Bay area has three nationally recognized cities that
are critical to market studies of this area. They are Tampa (in
Hillsborough County), St Petersburg and Clearwater (both in Pinellas
County).
An extensive network of roads and highways traverse
Pinellas County, joining one community with
another. The major thoroughfare is 1-275, which runs north and
south connecting the area with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and
Manatee County to the south, and the Howard Frankland Bridge and
Hillsborough County to the northeast. US 19 is an important north-south
link that runs the entire length of Pinellas, and the Bayside
Bridge is a three-mile north-south link betw een St. Petersburg's
growing Gateway area, the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Airport and
Clearwater. There are two other bridges that make Pinellas county
an easy commute the Courtney Campbell Causeway runs east-west
and the Gandy Bridge connects St Petersburg to Tampa. Along the
Gulf Beach communities, the main road is Gulf Blvd, connecting
our famous 35 miles of beachfront. It is also the address of hundreds
of resorts, motels, hotels and condos.
DID YOU KNOW ….