Bayview Gardens has one of the longest histories in Pinellas County as far as a retirement community goes. The ground breaking ceremony for the 36 acre WATERFRONT community took place November 20th 1964 at the cost of 3.8 million dollars. Bayview Gardens was built as a not-for-profit venture jointly sponsored by the Senior Citizen Services and the Florida Conference of the United Church of Christ.

In 1985 Morton Plant hospital bought Bayview Gardens and it went through an extensive renovation of its 94 units in Assisted Living and the 229 Garden Villa’s. In 2007 Bayview Gardens was purchased by SantaFe Senior Living, a Gainesville-based firm that wasted little time breathing new life into the community, remodeling once again and introducing new amenities and restructuring pricing to welcome new residents. (more…)