After three violent robberies, including kidnapping and a carjacking in New Tampa, the Tampa Police Department (TPD) reports that a teenage suspect is in custody. Continue reading
Welcome To Our Exclusive 2015 Guide To New Homes In New Tampa & Wesley Chapel
Wesley Chapel Leading The Growth In Pasco, K-Bar Ranch Driving New Tampa’s Completion
When you’ve been doing the same job for more than 21 years, you’re likely to see a lot of things change.
Well, in my capacity as the publisher and editor of the Neighborhood News for New Tampa and Wesley Chapel since 1994, I’ve seen housing booms and housing busts come and go — with the biggest boom hitting New Tampa and Wesley Chapel in 2004-06 (followed by the bursting of the local housing bubble in 2007-08). Continue reading
Legacy Assisted Living To Hold Grand Opening Aug. 6

The Legacy at Highwoods Preserve, New Tampa’s first assisted living facility, invites the public to attend its official Grand Opening on Thursday, August 6, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., with a Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce (WCCC) ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5:15.Continue reading
Buffalo Wild Wings Opens To Hungry, Waiting Crowd!
If you drove by the new Buffalo Wild Wings (BWW, or “B-Dubs”) Wesley Chapel, located on S.R. 56, just east of Cypress Ridge Blvd., on the morning of July 6, you probably saw a mass of people wrapped around the building, tents and even a sofa (we’re told). Continue reading
Café Olé Restaurant & Tapas Bar – New Tampa’s Place For Spanish (Cuisine), Seafood & Salsa!
It’s been the winner of my favorite restaurant in New Tampa the last couple of years and it’s always done pretty well in our annual Reader Dining Survey, so I’m still kind of surprised when people tell me that they’ve never heard of or never tried Café Olé Restaurant & Tapas Bar in the Cross Creek Center plaza on Cross Creek Blvd. at Kinnan St.Continue reading



