Once Upon A Child Opens Up For Sales Of Gently Used Kid’s Products

By Bonnie Mason

Brian and Melissa Levering of Once Upon A Child in the Pebble Creek Collection on BBD are ready to provide your child with new and gently used toys and clothing for less!
Brian and Melissa Levering of Once Upon A Child in the Pebble Creek Collection on BBD are ready to provide your child with new and gently used toys and clothing for less!

Wesley Chapel residents Brian and Melissa Levering are betting on the families in the New Tampa and Wesley Chapel area — betting that those families are ready to clear their closets, garages and storage spaces of items their children have outgrown, in return for cash!

On August 1, the Leverings opened Once Upon A Child, a children’s consignment shop, in New Tampa’s Pebble Creek Collection shopping plaza, located on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd., a mile south of the Pasco County line. The 3,500-sq.-ft. retail space is a place where families can buy, sell or trade gently used children’s clothing (from infants to pre-teen), toys and equipment. The Pebble Creek location is just one of five Once Upon A Child franchises in the Tampa Bay area, with 260 stores located across the U.S. and Canada.Continue reading

Small World Pediatrics Takes Care Of Your Kids From Diapers To Degrees

By Matt Wiley | September 14

For ten years now, Dr. JosĂ© JimĂ©nez has been the only phyisican at Small World Pediatrics, now located across BBD from Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel, in the Windguard Professional Center
For ten years now, Dr. JosĂ© JimĂ©nez has been the only phyisican at Small World Pediatrics, now located across BBD from Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel, in the Windguard Professional Center

Watching children develop from newborns to college scholars is a joy usually reserved for parents. However, José Jiménez, M.D., the one physician who has been seeing all of the patients at Small World Pediatrics (now located jut north of S.R. 56 in Wesley Chapel) for the past decade, has been right there with the parents in the New Tampa and Wesley Chapel area help those kids stay healthy as they have grown and matured from babies and young children into teenagers and young adults.

Now located (since 2010) in the Windguard Professional Center across Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. from the new Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel (FHWC), Small World Pediatrics is a full-service pediatrics practice that cares for children from the time that they are born through their college years (usually to about age 21).

Among the services Dr. Jiménez provides are physical exams for school and sports, vaccinations for daycare, school and college entry, and treating a wide range of pediatric illnesses.

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Sun Laboratory Services Opens Diagnostic Center In Wesley Chapel

By Bonnie Mason | September 14

Roger Briggs, CEO of Sun Laboratory Services
Roger Briggs, CEO of Sun Laboratory Services

Roger Briggs, the chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of Sun Laboratory Services, Inc. (which has a location in Wesley Chapel), stands by his mission to “deliver a level of patient service other laboratories are either unwilling or unable to provide.”

Briggs says that both Sun Labs’ new diagnostic center, located across Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. from Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel (FHWC), as well as the original location in Sun City Center, offer convenience and customer-centered care that other labs often don’t.

The main laboratory opened in Sun City in 2005 and grew from about 1,000 square feet to a 15,000-sq.-ft. facility.

“We went from serving a few local clients to more than 300, in addition to the individual patients who use our two diagnostic centers daily for their prescribed lab tests,” says Briggs.

Sun Laboratory Services is a full-service clinical laboratory that partners with businesses and organizations to provide onsite phlebotomy services (phlebotomy is the act of drawing or removing blood in order to obtain a sample for analysis and diagnosis) and lab results. Sun Laboratory-trained technicians visit hundreds of assisted living and skilled nursing Continue reading

Cellmasters Will Put The World In Your Palm With T-Mobile Phones & More!

Alex Hamed (left) and Joe Dimian will help put the right phone with the right plan in your hand.
Alex Hamed (left) and Joe Dimian will help put the right phone with the right plan in your hand.

By Matt Wiley | September 14

In our current technological age, it’s easy to forget that the computers many of us carry in our hands actually are what were once referred to as “telephones.” With the ongoing addition of more technology and services that these “Smartphones” are capable of offering, it’s good that there is a place in New Tampa to find the phone and the wireless service that meets your needs.

Consider Cellmasters, Inc., a new, independendtly owned T-Mobile store that opened in June of this year in the New Tampa Center shopping plaza on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. at Cross Creek/New Tampa Blvd. Inside, a myriad of the latest in phone technology and accessories line the showroom walls. It is here that owner Alex Hamed, a Cross Creek resident, and store manager Joe Dimian, who lives in West Meadows, fit customers with the plans and phones that best suit their lifestyles. Whether it is a contract plan with an expensive phone or a cheaper phone with a prepaid plan, Cellmasters has something for you and your family.

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Choose Pasco Dental For Top Training, Technology & Patient Comfort

The friendly, caring staff at Pasco Dental includes (l. to r.) Therese, the office manager, Dr. Daniel Hwang, office assistant Sona and dental assistant Trish.
The friendly, caring staff at Pasco Dental includes (l. to r.) Therese, the office manager, Dr. Daniel Hwang, office assistant Sona and dental assistant Trish.

By Gary Nager | September 14

It’s probably not every day that you hear a native New Yorker say that he’s kindred spirits with a dentist who was born in Korea, but that’s the way I feel about Dr. Daniel Hwang, DDS, of Pasco Dental, located in the Wesley Chapel Executive Center on S.R. 54, a little more than a mile east of Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd.

(Note-New Tampa residents who live north of I-75 are only 10-15 minutes from Pasco Dental.)

Although he was born in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Hwang was raised in Mt. Vernon, VA, and moved to Brooklyn, NY, for middle school and Queens, NY, for high school. He received both his Bachelor’s degree (in 1987) and his DDS degree (in 1991) from prestigious Columbia University in Manhattan and spent twelve years “learning the ropes of the dental business” with his brother, who had a thriving dental practice in Ft. Lee, NJ. Dr. Hwang then began opening his own chain of Price Dental offices in Flushing, Queens; Plainview, Long Island; Manhattan; Brooklyn; and Ft. Lee and Bergen Township, NJ.

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