Senior Living groundbreaking
Blue Heron Senior Living Community, at 29701 Stockton Drive in Wesley Chapel, will have a groundbreaking ceremony on May 15 at 9 a.m. The facility will include assisted living, rehabilitation, memory care and skilled nursing.
Blue Heron will offer 95 resort-style private suites where individuals will be provided assistance, as needed. It will feature a health spa, theater, wellness gym, activity center, resident art gallery, library, bistro shop and town square.
A separate wing of 22 apartments will be specifically dedicated to residents with Alzheimer’s or other forms of age-associated memory impairment.
The first residents of Blue Heron Senior Community will begin to move on campus in the spring of 2021. The senior living community is expected to create more than 225 new jobs.
For more information, call (765) 664-5400.
Market & Café ribbon cutting
Farmhouse Market & Café, 14124 Fifth St., in Dade City, is having its ribbon cutting ceremony on May 18 at 10 a.m. The café, housed in a 5,000-square-foot building, will serve breakfast, lunch and coffee. The business also will offer custom-made furniture, home décor, jellies, jams, honey, meats and fresh produce. Most recently, Thornhill’s Auto Repair operated in the 1926 building.
Virtual building inspections
Pasco County is now offering VuSpex, a virtual building inspections tool that provides inspection services to contractors, remotely, through the use of a Smartphone or tablet. The VuSpex app connects offsite inspectors with onsite contractors via video, which saves time and, therefore, money.
The inspectors remotely direct the onsite contractors as the contractors record videos, photos and notes at the jobsite. A geo-locator ensures that the inspection location matches the permit address. To find out more, visit bit.ly/PascoVuSpex.
East Pasco Networking
Melonie Monson, the executive director of The Greater Zephyrhills Chamber of Commerce, and Randy Stovall, president of the Zephyrhills chamber, will be the featured speakers at the East Pasco Networking Group’s May 28 meeting. The group meets at 7:30 a.m., at the IHOP at 13100 U.S. 301 in Dade City.
Chamber breakfast
The Greater Dade City Chamber of Commerce business breakfast is set for May 21, with registration and networking at 7 a.m. and breakfast at 7:30 a.m. The breakfast will be at AdventHealth Dade City, 13100 Fort King Road, Medical Plaza 1, in Classroom 107 and 108. The education committee will be introducing and presenting four Greater Dade City Chamber of Commerce Community Service and Involvement Scholarships. The recipients are Paul Leon, Sarah Peterson, Kaleigh Sinka and Megan Simonelli.
To RSVP and pay online, go to DadeCityChamber.org/chamber-breakfast.
Good place for startups
WalletHub, a personal finance website recently took a look at 2019’s Best Large Cities to start a business and compared 100 U.S. cities across 19 key indicators of startup viability. Tampa came in No. 5 on the list, following only Orlando; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Miami; and Austin, Texas. Miami ranked No. 1 for the number of startups per 100,000 people, with a rate of 234.72. That’s 3.2 times as many as Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which had the fewest at 74.40 per 100,000.
Upcoming celebrations
These businesses and organizations are planning celebrations soon.
- Licciardo Stables, 3007 Sunset Lane in Lutz, May 18 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Pioneer Florida Museum & Village, 15602 Pioneer Museum Road in Dade City, May 20 at 5:30 p.m.
- Maus Family Chevrolet, 16414 N. Dale Mabry Highway, May 22 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Other recent celebrations took place at the Dental Associates of Florida, 23461 State Road 54 in Lutz; Fit 4 you Foods, NTBC Office, 1866 Highland Oaks Blvd., Suite A, in Lutz; and, Blue Heron Communities, 5085 Eagleston Blvd., in Wesley Chapel.
