A space where young people used to go to buy trendy and affordable fashions is now where their grandparents will head to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Sarasota County’s health department has moved into the former Old Navy store at Sarasota Square Mall and transformed the 13,000-square-foot space into its main vaccine clinic.
The site opens Thursday for appointments to administer the booster shot to people who received their first dose of the vaccine at the end of December.
Officials say the county will be able to vaccinate as many as 1,500 people per day at the site.
But the main selling point, and why the county chose it, is its location.