Reminiscing with Gary Nager
For most people, the ribbon cutting held on February 27 may have been little or nothing more than just a new way to get from New Tampa Blvd. in West Meadows to Commerce Park Blvd. in Tampa Palms “North.” But, for me, it was an almost surreal, truly life-changing event. Why? Continue reading
By Matt Wiley
After more than a decade of operating its golf course while unable to make payments on the bonds that first built it, the Heritage Isles Community Development District (CDD) has settled much of its looming debt with its creditors and is looking toward the future.Continue reading
By Matt Wiley
While it looked hopeful in November, when Pasco County officials reached out to the City of Tampa and the developers of K-Bar Ranch about connecting the city and Pasco County through Kinnan St. in New Tampa and Mansfield Blvd. in Wesley Chapel, negotiations once again have come to a standstill.Continue reading
An editorial by Gary Nager
Since the day a couple of months ago when I found out that the “completion” of the widening of Segment A of Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. doesn’t mean we now have four lanes available in both directions between Pebble Creek Dr. and Palm Springs Blvd. in Tampa Palms, I have been waiting for it: the inevitable bottlenecks snarling traffic for an hour or more on New Tampa’s primary arterial roadway.Continue reading
By Gary Nager
Since it opened to traffic on Feb. 27 — after Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn cut the ribbon in a ceremony sponsored by the New Tampa Chamber of Commerce — the new New Tampa Gateway Bridge (see page 8) has been helping reduce travel times for those who have been trying to avoid the still-problematic traffic on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd.Continue reading