ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT briefings, which are hosted by the North Tampa Bay Chamber (NTBC) monthly and designed to introduce local business leaders to incoming developers, new business owners or regional leaders, range from being buzzworthy affairs to merely informational. Unless JD Porter is speaking. Then, the Chamber briefings become more like a local version of an Apple Event … [Read more...]
Heavy Hitters Talk Up Wesley Chapel’s Future At Economic Summit
The idea behind the 2017 East Pasco Economic Development Summit — the brainchild of Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce (WCCC) CEO Hope Allen and District 2 Pasco County Commissioner Mike Moore — was to get some of the county’s heaviest business hitters into one room to update local business leaders on what the future has in store for Wesley Chapel. The outlook presented … [Read more...]
MAP: Wiregrass Ranch Present and Future
The Neighborhood News recently spoke with Wiregrass Ranch developer and owner JD Porter about his family's philosophy in developing the land that has been owned by his family for more than seven decades, and some of the things that are coming to Wiregrass Ranch in the future. Here's our story on Porter, and below is the map with descriptions of how Wiregrass Ranch might look in … [Read more...]
Wiregrass Ranch Sports Complex Finally Moving Forward After BCC Vote
The Pasco County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) approved regular business item R5 that green-lit the RADDsports Wiregrass Sports Complex, as well as agreeing to double the Tourist Development Tax (TDT), or bed tax, in order to help finance it. The $44-million project, which will be built on part of a 224-acre parcel located northeast of the Shops of Wiregrass owned by … [Read more...]
Emptying The Town Hall Notebook
More than 1,000 parents and students streamed into Wesley Chapel High’s gymnasium Tuesday night, all hoping to convince Pasco County administrators that the recommended plan for school rezoning of their communities – Option 12 -- was a bad one. Did they succeed after the three-and-a-half hour town hall? We’ll find out Friday, when the Pasco School Boundary Committee (SBC) … [Read more...]
