WESLEY CHAPEL
Volume 28
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Issue 26
NEWS
December 22, 2020
Wesley Chapel To Add A YMCA! By JOHN C. COTEY across the street from the Super john@ntneighborhoodnews.com Target on County Line Rd. The Bonefish Grill officially completOstrem said ed its move from Bruce B. Downs Blvd. in Wesley Chapel to the Cypress Creek Town the new facility will cost $15 million to Center along S.R. 56 at a grand opening build and will be Dec. 14, but it turns out there were even 30,000 square feet. bigger fish fried during the event. The New Tampa Wesley Chapel is getting a YMCA! Family YMCA, That announcement was all the which is the closest buzz as folks nibbled on some of the current option best appetizers the beautiful, new Bonefor many Wesley fish Grill has to offer. “We’re about to be your new neigh- Chapel residents, is 35,000 sq. ft. bor,” Robyn Ostrem, the VP of operaYMCA vice president of operations & executive director of Tampa Metro“We’re in tions and executive director of the New politan Area YMCA Robyn Ostrem and membership and wellness experience director Ryan Pratt revealed that a Wesley Chapel Family YMCA New Tampa now, Tampa Family YMCA, told the gatherwill be breaking ground in 2021. (Photo: Charmaine George) but we’re going ing right before Bonefish Grill officially to be closer to you After years of rapid growth in the opened. “We’re going to build a Wesley now in Wesley Chapel,” Ostrem said. housing and restaurant markets, the Chapel Family YMCA that will break Generally, YMCAs have indoor “sports & activity” market in Wesley ground in early 2021, and will built by courts for basketball and volleyball, Chapel has picked up the pace this year. June of 2023.” workout areas and rooms for exercise The Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus Ostrem, who has been with the classes and daycare, as well as meeting of Pasco County opened in August, with New Tampa YMCA since 2019, did rooms. Many, like the New Tampa Y, the ability to host sports leagues and tournot announce an exact location for the also have pools and can host events like naments for basketball, volleyball, soccer Wesley Chapel location, only that it high school and youth swim meets. and other sports, while the indoor Recreawould be located on Bruce B. Downs The Wesley Chapel Y will be only tion Center at the Wesley Chapel District Blvd, although that really only leaves the third YMCA in Pasco County, joinPark is currently under construction and two possibilities — the land in front of will be completed sometime next year. An the new BayCare Hospital being built in ing the East Pasco Family YMCA in outdoor hockey rink right next to the rec the northesatern portion of Seven Oaks, Zephyrhills and the James P. Gillis Family YMCA in New Port Richey. center was completed last week as well. and the land in front of Meadow Pointe
Unveiling Your Favorites! It’s been a tough year for restaurants and bars, thanks to a pandemic that has been a living nightmare and is likely to have long-lasting effects. So this year, it’s our hope that our annual Reader Dining Survey & Contest results will serve as a celebration of food and drink, and of all of our readers’ favorite places in both Wesley Chapel and New Tampa. More than 100 restaurants and bars in the Wesley Chapel and New Tampa area received votes in one category or another. We would like to thank everyone who participated. On page 19, you’ll see your 20 favorite restaurants in Wesley Chapel. Keep turning the pages to see your favorite places for pizza, burgers, Asian, Green, Latin, breakfast, dessert and drinks. And as they might say when serving your favorite food in your favorite restaurant, “Bon Appetit!”