Local Business: Models Are Open At New Communities, New Spin Studio

Discovery Village at Tampa Palms (photo above), which touts itself as “Resort Style Senior Living,” is located across Commerce Park Blvd. from Freedom High at 17470 Brookside Trace Ct. The new assisted living and memory care facility won’t be fully open until December of this year, but now has model rooms available for touring.

Discovery Village will offer 10 different floor plans, ranging from 345-sq.-ft. to 944-sq.-ft. There will be three floor plans for memory care — a 345-sq.-ft. studio and two different two bedroom, two bath apartments (804-sq.-ft. and 944-sq.-ft.). Assisted living at Discovery Village will offer four floor plans, with three 1-bedroom, 1-bath apartments  with 541, 595 and 639 square feet, respectively, and a 2-bedroom, 2-bath, 823-sq.-ft. “executive” apartment. There also are two supervised “independent living” suites of 543-sq.-ft. and 595-sq.-ft; both of which are 1-bedroom, 1-bath.

Owner/developer Discovery Senior Living is headquartered in Bonita Springs, FL, and manages twelve other communities in Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.

For more information, see the ad on pg. 23 of this issue, visit DiscoveryVillages.com or call 605-2400.

STAFFORD PLACE MODELS OPEN: Stafford Place, a new community of 118 single-family homes starting from $316,990 and touted as one of the last opportunities to buy a brand new home in Tampa Palms (off Tampa Palms Blvd., behind BJ’s Wholesale Club), now has two model homes open for prospective buyers.

The CalAtlantic Homes community will have houses ranging from 1,866-sq.-ft. to the luxury Bedford model that is 3,644 sq.-ft. and starts at $404,990. There are eight one- and two-story floor plans to choose from.

The models are located at 6209 English Hollow Rd. For more info, call 605-1515 or visit CalAtlanticHomes.com.

NEW SPIN STUDIO NOW OPEN: Avid spin cyclers Steve Woody (of Woody’s Pizza & Wings in the Wesley Chapel Village Market) and business partner Jim Upchurch have opened Cycology, a new “spin” (indoor cycling) studio located in the Shoppes of New Tampa at Wesley Chapel plaza on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd., just south of  S.R. 56, in Wesley Chapel.

Cycology is in the space previously occupied by Pura Cycling. Woody and Upchurch, who opened Cycology in January, are hoping to transform the indoor cycling studio into a more vigorous exercise space.

Upchurch says Cycology has been able to retain 90-95 percent of Pura Cycling’s former clients, as well as adding 50-60 new spinners since opening. “We’ll have more classes, we will be open more and will have the best of the best spin instructors,’’ says Upchurch, who says he has been a serious spinner himself for the past 4-5 years.

Upchurch also says he is currently going through permitting in the hopes of adding showers in the back, making it more convenient for people getting a spin class in before having to go to work in the morning.

Cycology, which offers 3-, 6- and 12-month agreements, is open until 7 or 8 p.m. on most nights, except for Friday-Sun. It offers spinning classes as early as 5:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays,  and also offers yoga, pilates, Zumba classes and semi-private personal training sessions as well.

Sometimes, Upchurch says, the bikes are even moved out onto the patio in front of Cycology for an outdoor workout.

To check out the class schedule or for more info, visit Cycologyspin.com, or call 907-8710.