Tampa Bay Lightning two outdoor rinks in Pasco County
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The county’s agenda for Planning Commission, Jan 21, 2021
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The county’s minutes for Planning Commission, Jan 21, 2021
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At uh J Ban Record.
Opening of two.
drinks that were uh in a uh built in a Lightning Foundation, the Tampa Bay Lightning. The other facility is located at the District Park over in Wesley Chapel.
Yeah, that's my hockey!
That over five years ago we uh with the NHL and the NHLPA we came together uh and created the industry growth fund. The purpose of the industry growth fund was to simply grow the game of hockey. We uh applied to have ten outdoor rinks in different areas: Pasco County, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Down in Manatee, Polk.
When they mentioned that they were going to put one in, knowing how large our county and how much need that we have here, I I I asked them if they would be kind enough to put in two.
For us to have a ribbon cutting here and have two rinks in Pasco County, we're we're super, super excited.
When when the Lightning approached us, uh the idea was that we would provide the property uh for the facility. Uh we were to construct the pads that the rinks themselves would go on, and through the agreement, the Lightning Foundation was responsible for um building the actual The actual infrastructure itself on top of the pad. And then from there, again, the the uh it'd be a coordinated effort with league play. They provide all of the equipment initially in terms of the sticks and whatnot, um, to start the initial league with also a series of
clinics and then um really kind of to just get the program rolling, at which point then the parks team would assume, you know, overseeing the league play from that point on.
You know what, the favorite part is that they're all different. So they have different nuances, different paint jobs, different things that you that you look forward to that are unique to each. So we're
gonna have a combination of free play, obviously open to the public. Uh and then in coordination with the the lightning, we will be working on actual league play uh where we can create some structured programming depending on
season. As we know, having kids, uh giving them an activity, something to do. is a great thing. There'll be this place will be loaded with kids every night.
I love Pasco County. There's a ton of lightning fans in Pasco County and there's a ton of engaged kids as well.
It's just uh one more wonderful thing that we're bringing to Pasco County to give our residents a really high quality of life.