Enclote River park close restaurant water
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Oct 6, 2020
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Yeah, um two things. Um I added one. Um I just wanted to let you all know that last week For sure it was last week. We did finally close with Duke on the Enclote River. Oh good. That got a little sticky there for a while, but we now own that park. And um we had already started, you know, we'd already hired someone to do a conceptual design for the park. So um we are moving on that rapidly. As you know, um we have we have some money from the um the tourism
money and uh other money to go ahead and do some renovation and improve the boater access um and the use in that park. And we're going to uh be going out for uh those who want to bid on putting a restaurant on the water. at the tip there of the park looking out over the Enclote River and the Gulf and I say it's going to be one of the best restaurant sites in the Tampa Bay area. I'm very excited for it to see
what's going to come back there. You'll be able to come to the restaurant by boat or or drive in. And I just think it's just going to be great for the community. We're also planning spaces where we can have art festivals and seafood festivals. and things like that. So uh it's gonna be a a a really cool park and I'm so excited and thank you duke and to our staff. I know Mike Carbala was very involved in it and Keith Wiley we had Lots and lots of discussions. When you're dealing with Duke, it's um a
challenge because they have so many different departments and you have to get everyone to the table or the phone at some point and move forward and it it took a little while but we're we're really excited and I hope to maybe buy some more of their land. So to to to come in the future. The other thing I wanted to tell you about was our next trade event that we're holding with the Pasco Economic Development Council. And it is going to be what's called the The Importance of Trade. Um, well, actually