By Matt Wiley
As we previously reported in the Wesley Chapel Neighborhood News, Pasco County tax collector Mike Fasano currently is hunting for the right space for a Wesley Chapel-area office, which he thought he had found in The Grove plaza off Oakley Blvd. However, after getting funds approved to lease The Grove, negotiations have fallen through. But, a new location has been found for the office a few miles southwest at ComPark 75.
During the Jan. 14 Pasco Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting, tax collector Mike Fasano addressed the issue.
“We were not able to come to an agreement with the landlord and realtor (for the office at the Grove),” Fasano told commissioners. “But, we’ve found a new location that we’re very pleased with at ComPark 75.”
Currently under construction, ComPark 75 is a 60-acre, 700,000-sq.-ft., light industrial park located about 2.5 miles west of I-75 on S.R. 54/Wesley Chapel Blvd. (just west of Wesley Chapel in Lutz), adjacent to Tampa North Aero Park, with a wide range of zoning options for its multiple buildings and business spaces including warehouse, manufacturing and office uses.
Fasano told commissioners that a lease at ComPark will be cheaper and allow more space for the new location’s abundance of services, which will include driver’s licenses, vehicle and vessel registrations, hunting licenses and even driving tests, as well as Saturday hours.
“The Land O’Lakes office is overflowing,” Fasano said. “We have people waiting outside on Saturdays.”
Fasano said that Saturday hours have attracted customers from as close as Hillsborough and Pinellas counties to as far away as Orlando and even Boca Raton.
“Every time someone walks through the door, that person is paying a fee,” he explained. “Those fees come right back into Pasco County.”
He told commissioners that he hopes to have the office open by June or July of this year.
Fasano also informed the BOCC that his offices are bringing in an additional $20,000 per month from both Hillsborough and even Palm Beach counties from car sales.
“We are now receiving a total of $13,000 per month from Hillsborough and about $7,000 from Palm Beach County from car sales that are being done here in Pasco,” Fasano explained. “Title and registration fees from cars leaving Pasco are now coming back to the county each month. The great news is that all we have to do is deposit the checks. It’s not costing us a dime.”
For more information about the Pasco County Tax Collector’s office, please visit PascoTaxes.com.
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