New Port Richey Hacienda Kaiser tour
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Um The last thing I want to mention is jury trials are um coming back and that will be March 15th is the date that they're going to begin jury trials. Uh we are ready uh for the jurors to keep them um so properly social distant. and proper um cleaning and disinfectants um within the courthouse. So we are ready for that. Just wanted to make sure everyone was was also aware of the jury trial starting back. That's it. Thank you.
Thank you. Okay, it's uh twelve o'clock, but I have I have an item I want to bring up. I have something else, but I'll bring it up at the end of our meeting today. Uh I made a tour of the New Port Richey. And if you would, Eric, could you pull up I think I have a couple of slides.
Oh the Hassan. Is that the Hassan?
Yep. I went towards the Hacienda with uh city manager Debbie Mann and uh had lunch with her and Mayor Rob Marlowe and um Pete Altman carried me around the city and saw the l lot of improvements they're making in New Port Richey. Um The uh the hacienda, the picture you see in front of you, that building was built in 1922 and they're in the renovations. They made an agreement with uh the CRA, made an agreement with Mr. Gardenson,
who is uh renovating and purchasing the building. So it will be a hotel and later on this year they'll finish. Uh do you have next slide?
Yeah. There's Let's see. Is that the parking garage?
Mm mm.
Or the Kaiser there we go. We have the Kaiser University. They have um a thousand student body and a hundred staff members over in in New Portie. They're making you know, building and transforming some whole area in that that city to It's gonna be very beautiful to have this uh university there. Also, uh the next slide is a um Louis Swanson um parking parking lot. And
that parking course is essential to the business in downtown and all they've they've actually been going through a lot of area down there and and uh revamping, remodeling, bringing in some new business. And even we rode through some of the neighborhood that's close right there. And you can even see the pride the residents in New Port Richey have in their home. homes because they've upgraded them, they've painted them. I mean they they l really look great. So you can you can take that they take
very much pride in in their properties and where they live there. So it's exciting
to see it. Um I know my brother in law is doing a lot of investment there. It's exciting to see the changes. Yeah.
For me I I'm of course east east Pasco person, but I I don't see all this All the time, so I I was amazed where the where we took the boat ride for the river, you know, for the Chesapeake boat tour and uh or parade, I guess it was. But uh where the river comes into the city and all, I saw where we actually come to and then turn around and came back out. And uh it's kind of interesting to me, but it's got a lot of beauty there and a lot of things to be proud of in that city.