Wesley Chapel tidbits from last week....

Here are a few Wesley Chapel  tidbits that came up last week:

$33 million ----------------The amount of money in the state budget for Pasco - Hernando Community College this year to help with construction costs of the new Wesley Chapel campus adjacent to Wiregrass Ranch High School.  (Groundbreaking isn't expected until 2012.)

August 2010 ---------------The latest date for the newly assigned road builder for SR 56 extension to have the (previously delayed) Mansfield to Meadow Pointe Blvd. segment opened.  (How many times has this extension been delayed over the years?)

Pasco Hernando Community College Wesley Chapel Campus

The sign announcing the future campus of the Pasco - Hernando Community College in Wesley Chapel was unveiled today.  The 60 acre site of the campus is located next to Wiregrass Ranch High School and was donated by the Porter family.  The name of the college's planned fifth campus will be the Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, and construction of the new campus isn't expected to start until 2012, with an opening in the fall of 2013.

A Community College for Wesley Chapel

The big news this week is that Wesley Chapel will get a community college.  The Pasco-Hernando Community College plans to acquire 60 acres of donated Wiregrass Ranch land just north of the Wiregrass Ranch High School and south of SR 56.  The Tampa Tribune further reports that the closing of the land deal for the fifth campus is expected in January and it will be two to three years before construction of the new campus begins.