Countryside Mall Arrives in North Pinellas
Countryside Mall opened on September 8, 1975, at the southwest corner of U.S. Highway 19 and State Road 580 in Clearwater.
The location placed it beside the main north-south commercial road in Pinellas County and near the growing communities of Dunedin, Safety Harbor, Palm Harbor, and northern Clearwater.
It formed the commercial center of the larger Countryside development planned by U.S. Home Corporation, which combined neighborhoods, golf courses, recreation, and business sites in one suburban district…