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All Children’s Receives $10,000 Donation As New Dollar Tree, Four Stacks Brewery & Part Of Camp Amazon STEM Camp More Coming To Riverview 14 Project By Kate Quesada
around the country as part of the Amazon Goes Gold program and was also attended by representatives from the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO). “We are incredibly honored to have hosted children and their families from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and are truly thankful for all Children battling cancer at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital attended Camp Amazon last month where they participated in STEM activities at Amazon’s Ruskin fulfillment center.
they do to support children in our community,” said Rob Packett, director of operations at Amazon’s Ruskin fulfillment center. “With Camp Amazon, we hope to provide young people with the tools and resources they need to build, imagine and innovate.” The donation is one of many that Amazon makes to select charities and organizations throughout the year. “According to the American Childhood Cancer Organization, childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children in the United States, yet there’s a disparity between the amount of federal funding for childhood cancer research and adult cancer research,” said Painter, who explained that Amazon wants to help rectify that. Amazon’s Tampa Fulfillment Center is located at 3350 Laurel Ridge Ave. in Ruskin. For more information on Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, visit www.hopkinsallchildrens.org.
The 30-acre Riverview 14 theater project between I-75 and the Wal-Mart Super Center is now in its second year and construction is starting to take off again. “In addition to the Riverview 14 Theater and Features Gastropub that opened March 2017, the Zaxby’s Chicken that opened April 2017 and the Dunkin/T-Mobile building that opened June of 2017, we are pleased to announce that we have several new businesses coming to the project,” reported Terry Benton, vice president of real estate for Strathmore Development. The new phase of development includes a 21,700-sq.-ft. strip center, a new 120-room Extended Stay America national hotel that will break ground this fall and a new national sit-down restaurant to be announced soon. “We continue to hear from other local businesses and area residents that the area south of the Alafia River really could use a new hotel. So, we listened to the market,” said Benton. “The folks in the Riverview/Gibsonton/FishHawk area keep asking us for more stores and services closer to home or in their daily traffic pattern when using the I-75 interchange.” Land clearing is near completion on the 2.4-acre parcel south of the T Mobile store and construction is starting on a 21,700-sq.-ft.multi-tenant building that will face the Wal-Mart Super Center. Current signed tenants include Dollar Tree, LA Nails and Four Stacks Brewery. Benton noted that the 10,000 sq. ft. Dollar Tree that will serve as the anchor will be the store’s latest prototype and that Dollar Tree will vacate its existing store on the southeast corner of Boyette Rd. and U.S. 301 in the former WinnDixie Plaza. This will be the second south Hillsborough location for Four Stacks Brewery owners Nathan and Heather Hangen. The new Four Stacks will be
larger than their Apollo Beach location as it will include a nearly 2,000-sq.-ft outdoor patio or “beer garden” as well as 2,100 sq. ft. of climate-controlled indoor space. There still is one more space for lease available, according to Benton. Along with the building development, Benton said that there also will be three new multi-tenant signs erected on the perimeter of the property, including a 50ft. pylon sign adjacent to I-75. For leasing information, call Benton at 517-664-4128.
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Amazon’s Ruskin fulfillment center hosted some important visitors last month. Children battling cancer at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and their families visited the center for Camp Amazon, a hands-on robotics day camp, as part of Amazon’s month-long national campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer. During the camp, the children participated in hands-on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activities including building and testing their own robot cars. “They were treated to a behind-thescenes tour of the center and watched how Amazon associates work along side robotics to pick, pack and ship customer orders,” said Media Representative Lauren Painter, who added that each child also took home a small box of STEM toys. At the end of the camp, Amazon made a donation of $10,000 to the pediatric oncology department at the hospital. “So that every child will an opportunity to pursue their passions,” said Painter. The event was one of eight planned
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For 30 years, residents have been enjoying delicious food and entertainment at the Annual Ruskin Seafood Festival and this year’s event, taking place on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4 promises to be one of the best yet. For more information, contact the chamber at 645-1366 or visit www.ruskinseafoodfestival.org. See full story on Page 3.
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